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- <li><em>date</em>: Fri Jul 9 11:44:11 2004</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: james at sumners.ath.cx (james at sumners.ath.cx)</li>
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On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:35:16AM -0400, Mike Murphy wrote:
> I use TLS too, to authenticate remote connections to my mail server at
> home (mostly from my laptop when I'm on the road). However, the problem
> presented by Bellsouth here is different:
>
> They are requiring all of their clients to authenticate to send mail,
> starting Jul 13 (next Tuesday). If I were running a regular client, say
> thunderbird from home, and using their mail server, I'd have to
> configure it to pass my username and password when it sends mail.
>
> The challenge here is configuring sendmail to do the same thing, when it
> talks to bellsouth's mail server. To recap, I already have:
>
> "DS[mail.bellsouth.net]" in my sendmail.cf. This tells it to relay all
> mail through bellsouth's mail server (and the brackets tell it to use
> that server's A name from dns, not its MX addresses).
>
> Now, in addition, I have to add (from
> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/sm-812.html#812AUTH";>http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/sm-812.html#812AUTH</a>):
> O DefaultAuthInfo=/etc/mail/default-auth-info
>
> This tells sendmail (at least sendmail 8.12 and newer), to look in
> /etc/mail/default-auth-info for authorization info. That file has this
> in it:
> AuthInfo:mail.bellsouth.net "U:[my username]" "P:[my password]"
>
> In theory that should make sendmail now authenticate before it tries to
> relay mail (just like any client would).
>
> Now that I know how to do this in sendmail.cf, I need to figure out how
> to do it using a rule in sendmail.mc (since I'd prefer to not directly
> edit sendmail.cf if I can avoid it). Or, I guess I could finally get off
> my duff and learn exim or something.
>
> Unfortunately, mail.bellsouth.net still isn't offering AUTH, so I can't
> really test this to see if it works correctly. I guess I'll have to do
> so after they turn it on on the 13th.
>
> Mike
>
>
> james at sumners.ath.cx wrote:
> >I just configured my Exim server to do it:
> ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://ug.dyndns.org/~jsumners/comments.php?article=157";>http://ug.dyndns.org/~jsumners/comments.php?article=157</a>
> >
> >But, of course, if you have relaying denied and you are the only one
> >that uses it then who cares?
> >
> >On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:22:15AM -0400, Mike Murphy wrote:
> >
> >>I got this from Bellsouth today. It seems they will soon be requiring
> >>SMTP clients to authenticate before sending mail. Now, if I can just
> >>remember how to configure sendmail to do that...
> >>
> >>Mike
> >
> >
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