This may be a really daft question, but why would you want to force your
users to use your SMTP server as apossed to their ISP's,. Is it not better
to have the ISP carry the extra work load than yourselves?
Regards
Les
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew P. Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 9:54 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] unable to send mail through ATT connection
> >>
> yes, all that's doable technically, but how would he get his RADIUS
> accounts and Imail accounts sync'd up, same logins and
> passwords?
> >.
>
> This would only affect a handful of users. So it's no big deal to maintain
a
> small database by hand.
>
> Actually, people are starting to really like this service. Alot of road
> warriors have numerous dialup accounts, so it's nice to have a SINGLE mail
> settings to handle all their dialup connections.
>
>
> Andrew P. Kaplan, CNE, MCSE+Internet, MCT, CCNA, CCDA
> CyberShore, Inc. -- Premium Internet Services -- http://www.cshore.com
>
> --- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
> > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 3:43 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] unable to send mail through ATT connection
> >
> >
> >
> > >If port 25 filtering is implemented, you can either change the
> > port you are
> > >listening on
> >
> > But will the roamers know how to set up their mail clients to send to
> > another port??
> >
> > eg, a quick look a my main personality in Eudora 5 does show not me
> > how to send outbound to a port, only to a hostname or ip.
> >
> > >I believe you are an IMGate user, so you could also do SMTP AUTH on
your
> > >postfix box (postfix shouldn't have a problem running on more than one
> > >port). You need to install CYRUS SASL and compile support for
> > that library
> > >into postfix. Then you can setup PAM (pluggable authentication
modules)
> > >with a RADIUS module that can auth against your RADIUS server.
> >
> > yes, all that's doable technically, but how would he get his RADIUS
> > accounts and Imail accounts sync'd up, same logins and
> > passwords? Imail doesn't AUTH against RADIUS. And while postfix can
> > AUTH against LDAP, Imail's LDAP server doesn't provide secure AUTH,
(yet).
> >
> > The only what I can see is to have Imail and postfix both auth
> > against an external SQL database. Imail talks to the tables through
> > ODBC and postfix could talk to the same tables through an OpenLDAP
> > server based on the SQL server. I don't know whether postfix can
> > AUTH though something like UNIXODBC.
> >
> > I really think the only practical way, for most of us, is to go along
> > with the trend of IPS's blocking port 25. Access to Imail's port 25
> > from Internet could then be blocked at the border router, really
> > protecting Imail, and forcing all inbound SMTP to IMGate. ie,
> > roamers would not relay through the IMail ISP but only through their
> > access provider's SMTP relay.
> >
> > Len
> >
> >
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