On Thursday 17 June 2004 14:09, Dale E Martin wrote: > Hello. I run a small mailserver, and I'm interested in allowing my users > to relay mail off of it. I'm currently using exim4 as my MTA, and uw-imap > for client mail access. In the past I have used "exact"[0] to allow > "pop-before-relay" access, and it has worked well. I'm getting ready to > move my mail server and I was looking and it appears that "exact" is not > packaged for Debian, which makes me wonder what others are doing to achieve > this functionality. I'm also wondering if it's worth my effort to package > exact...
Hi Dale, The 'modern' way to approach this problem is to not use pop-before-smtp at all, but instead to make use of ESMTP Authentication. In this scheme, a user/password set are supplied in the SMTP conversation. ESMTP Auth is supported by all major mail clients (yes, even Outlook Express 5 and 6...). Cheers, Gavin.
