Re: pop before smtp relay
On Thursday 17 June 2004 14:09, Dale E Martin wrote:
> Hello. I run a small mailserver, and I'm interested in allowing my users
> to relay mail off of it. I'm currently using exim4 as my MTA, and uw-imap
> for client mail access. In the past I have used "exact"[0] to allow
> "pop-before-relay" access, and it has worked well. I'm getting ready to
> move my mail server and I was looking and it appears that "exact" is not
> packaged for Debian, which makes me wonder what others are doing to achieve
> this functionality. I'm also wondering if it's worth my effort to package
> exact...
Hi Dale,
The 'modern' way to approach this problem is to not use pop-before-smtp at
all, but instead to make use of ESMTP Authentication. In this scheme, a
user/password set are supplied in the SMTP conversation.
ESMTP Auth is supported by all major mail clients (yes, even Outlook Express 5
and 6...).
Cheers,
Gavin.
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