all of our users are outside the local network - we are an IPP and have
thousands of users who may/would want to relay through the server, and it
just all gets a bit messy - because it would mean each real user would have
to be a virtual user as well as a real user - this has big drawbacks -
firstly educating customers to all of this (difficult if you are selling on
ease of use) - secondly neither the web admin scripts or the windows GUI
allow for virtual user set-up - the pre-gen skel doesn't have freeVSD in it
so VS admins cannot add virtual users - which would leave our sys admin guys
adding hundreds of users for customers - not cost effective -
we are re-writing the web admin scripts to accomodate the new features time
zone, htpasswd, virtual users but seems a bit pointless if we can't use
virtual users because we have to use pop before smtp for real users etc etc
Eddie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Marett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: virtual users
> On Tuesday 24 July 2001 3:24 pm, you wrote:
> > but doesn't that mean that pop before smtp doesn't work for real users
if
> > you use vm-pop3d?
>
> yes.
>
>
> >so you can't use virtual users and have real users send
> > email through the server?
> >
> > eddie
>
> You can let 'real' users send mail, they just cant do pop before smtp
> authentication.
>
> Which in essance means you would need to configure access for the hosts
you
> wish to relay for.
>
> It beaks down to this:
>
> For users whom you wish to use pop before smtp authentication (users who
> occasionally send mail from outside of your network ie: from home) - set
them
> up a virtual user.
>
> For users who are inside your network (or any other static trust worthy
> network) and you know they dont "roam" from your network,
> you could then configure sendmail access for them, and add them a 'real'
user
> account.
>
> Obviously, if your an ISP and you provide dial-up's this isnt a problem,
as
> your dial ups are part of your local network, yet you may have some pesky
> users who want to send mail whilst they are working over in the USA, then
> they will want to roam, as you dont want your sendmail server to become a
> promiscuous relay, then you want to authenticate.
>
> So, virtual users for those who want to roam, 'real' users for those who
dont.
>
> As I have said, this will all be fixed shortly, and this email will be old
> and refer to somthing that no longer exists.
>
> But in the meantime those are the options.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nigel.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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