[lug] smtp authentication with sendmail

[Charles Menzes]

I'll take this email to respond to yours, and the previous reply to my 
original post. 

I'm completely in bed with sendmail, so moving to qmail or postfix is out 
of the question less a complete overhaul of a fairly complex environment. 
In short, its just not worth it as long as I watch my back and lock down 
the hatches as best I can.

Asking for users to using certificates for authentication or port 
forwarding, its also pretty out of the question. My user base is 100% 
Windows based, non-technical folk who just want to send and receive their 
mail. Unfortunately, they're roaming and have no desire to change their 
smtp server based upon the LAN/DUN they attach to for the week.

I need a way to allow for user to pop/send from my servers no matter where 
they are on the internet, and try my best to prevent the servers I'm using 
to become the hideout of scum and villany known as spammers.

And thus, I find myself wrestling with SASL.

Charles


On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Archer Sully wrote:

> On Friday 12 April 2002 10:18, you wrote:
> > hello all,
> > i've been struggling with getting a sendmail 8.11.6 daemon up and running
> > using cyrus-sasl for smtp authentication. my goal is to use simple PLAIN
> > auth against the local /etc/shadow to allow roaming users smtp access
> > without opening the server up to blind open relay.
> >
> 
> Any particular reason why you're using sendmail instead of 
> one of the more reliable/secure MTAs such as Postfix or Qmail?
> 
> As far as the roaming users vs. open relay, I just use ssh port
> forwarding to server:25.  Works great, and no hassle with SASL.
> And there's the additional benefit of automagically encrypting 
> all of my over-the-air mail traffic.   
> 
> -- archer
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