[lug] Auth based relaying

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 03:22:55PM -0400, Ken Nagorski wrote:
>I have a question about auth based relaying (Where a user can send mail
>from anywhere as long as he has a pop account). Has anyone done this? What

The one I like to use is "POP before SMTP".  As long as the user logs in
via POP, they are allowed to relay for some period of time via SMTP.  The
system I use for doing this with qmail is "relay-ctrl", which works fairly
well.  You can find it at:

   http://untroubled.org/relay-ctrl/

The nice thing about this is that most mail clients will do a POP mail
retrieval before trying to send out SMTP messages so that this will work.
Plus it doesn't require any extra configuration, it just magically works...

Not to push the business too much, but we have a system I've developed
called "qmailinstall", which automates the process of installing a rather
full featured qmail system including POP before SMTP relay authentication,
webmail, virtual domain management, and web-based user administration,
among others...  Contact me if you'd like more information.

>is the best mail server to do this with. I would like to use Qmail but I

I like qmail...

Sean
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