Hello,.

I am trying to provide pop3/smtp services for some clients that have random
dial-up internet access. For this reason it is not viable to attempt to
allow relaying through 'smtpaccess' permissions, since they connect from
random and changing ips.

So, I have enabled authentication on inbound esmtp. I have gone over the
settings in the 'esmtp' config file and read through much documentation.

Then, I allowed relaying for all addresses.

I assumed that this would still allow unauthenticated inbound smtp sessions
for locally hosted mail, and that anyone trying to relay non-local mail
through my server would have to authenticate.

Alas, now all inbound mail gets the "535 authentication required" response
as shown by /var/log/mail.log

So the question: can I only authenticate outbound relaying sessions without
requiring authentication for all inbound esmtp connections?

Am I missing something here or is esmtp authentication only applicable to
"all or none"?

It seems that the only solution for allowing relaying from remote addresses
is to have one server running authentication for remote users to relay
through, and another server to catch all inbound mail. Does this sound
accurate? I think I am missing something.

Thanks,
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