Hi Len,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] open relay
> >Yes, but what is with those customers who are using eMail-Clients that don�t
> >support SMTP-Auth ?
>
> Eudora and MS Lookout! all support SMTP AUTH. The others are kaput.
What is Eudora ?
Over here in germany the most famous client are
Outlook Express followed by Netscape Messeenger.
Clients like Eudora and Pegasus and my beloved
Forte Agent (which I cannot use behind our firewall somehow),
are not very popular to the masses.
> SMTP AUTH is the RFC way to do it, and is supported by the vast
> majority of mail pgms. Mail pgms that cannot do SMTP AUTH don't have
> much future as more and more access providers require authentication
> before relaying.
A well configured SendMail-linux box as smarthost is much better imho.
To come to your question:
I configured the old mailserver of ours as both handling outgoing traffic and
incoming traffic. Incoming traffic will be "scanned" by SendMail rulesets and then
invoked to the IMail-Server.
Stopping SMTP on IMail does only mean that you cannot deliver Mails to
IMail directly. But you can send eMails from IMail to a smarthost "mail relay"
and this send it out to the internet.
bye
Martin
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