Re: Email login options
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 10:49 -0500, Tony Heal wrote:
> I have a Debian woody server that runs our email (ipopd, 2001adebian-6
> & exim, 3.35-1woody3). We use MS outlook (Office XP) as an email
> client. I currently have SMTP use limited to the net block of our
> office, this causes people in remote sites to have to use EarthLink
> for SMTP, or in my case Bellsouth. Pop is set up to authenticate using
> Kerberos from a Windows domain controller. The email server and domain
> controller are located at different sites
>
> What I am looking for are solutions/best practices for SMTP
> authentication so local and remote users can use our SMTP server, and
> pop authentication without depending on the Windows domain. Does
> anyone have any suggestions that does not require sending passwords
> over clear text and allows for easy to manage passwords without having
> to log into the mail server to change a users password.
>
> This is what my boss is asking.
> "remove dependency of domain controller to email, What are our
> options? Surely there are best practices for this that don't involve
> having users ssh in to maintain their pw's."
not smtp authentication per se, but vpn would solve the problem.
-matt zagrabelny
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