Thus spake "Ronald F. Guilmette": > > Before answering, keep in mind that I will likely need to configure the > SMTP server on the remote VM (postfix) in such a way that my home machine > will be able to authenticate to it, you know, in order to send outbound > mail. (The last time I tried something like this I think I gave up in > the end because it seemed like too much of a pain in the ass to get the > authentication all working. But now I have no choice, and have to make > it work this time.)
This part isn't too hard if you're using Postfix. Configuration locally, in main.cf: smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter = plain, login smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous, noplaintext smtp_sasl_tls_security_options = noanonymous Configuration remotely, in main.cf: smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, ... lots of spam checks here ... permit And you need to set up one of the supported SASL authenticators. I happen to be using dovecot for that. See http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html for more details. -- J. _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
