OK here is what I did. I simply went into the webmin and enabled "require authentication", and enabled crypt and md5 encryption. As far as I looked this just modifies the default esmtp config file "esmtp", changes a few "no"s to "yes"s.
As soon as I enabled the change, and enabled relaying for the world, I could no longer receive inbound email from anyone, as /var/log/mail.log stated "535 authentication error" (or something close). For example, this mailing list attempting to send me mails was denied due to authentication. Before enabling authentication, everything worked fine. So what could be missing here, between your assertion that the default config should not force authorizations on inbound emails and my described situation? TIA, alex at cuscominc.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Varshavchik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Courier Mailinglist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 12:56 PM Subject: [courier-users] Re: esmtp authentication and relaying > Alex Martin writes: > > > > So the question: can I only authenticate outbound relaying sessions without > > requiring authentication for all inbound esmtp connections? > > This is the default configuration. Nothing special needs to be done. > > -- > Sam > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: > ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ > _______________________________________________ > courier-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users > ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
