Binand Raj S. saw fit to inform LI that:
>What I wanted to do was to enable SMTP auth, and finally managed it. My
>experience earlier with Cyrus and SASL helped. :-) But I am still doubtful
>about the utility of this facility. Suresh?
Authentication - SASL implements SMTP AUTH and other features - security,
basically. If you have roaming users and dont want to run an open relay,
this is the way to go.
>Anyway, I have entered the true men's world - I opened /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
>in an editor and tried editing it - wanted to figure out how to reject an
>email if the username part of the From: address doesn't match the name used to
>authenticate - any suggestions?
Please dont do this - you will get a lot of false positives... suppose
someone posts from vsnl and uses a bigfoot id, or someone with a different
login on his linux box sends mail with a different from address ...
and what about mailing lists?
See http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/chk89-opt.html btw :)
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