Jay Nambiar rearranged electrons thusly:
> some vsnl mail servers, like mail.vsnl.net relays any message, even if u
> connect from another isp, so long as u authenticate urself, using ur pop
> username/password. Wouldnt that be a better policy then say relay by name or
> ip.
this is pop before smtp. A far better thing to do (if you are running a
mailserver with roaming users) is smtp auth
> how does one configure sendmail to use the vsnl mail server as a smarthost
> by using the authentication feature.
just before you run sendmail to process the queue, run fetchmail to fetch
mails from vsnl. That will give you a window of maybe 30 minutes (might vary)
to relay mails through.
For true auth (LOGIN, CRAM-MD5 and such) - see http://www.sendmail.org - there
is a howto on setting up sendmail (and the cyrus sasl libraries) to do auth.
--suresh
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