On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Thomas Walter wrote:

> > I'm setting up qpopper 4.0 for the first time and want it to ask for the
> > users password when uploading email to the outgoing server as well as when
> > they get their email. I can't find a reference to this in the online docs.
> >
> > Can anyone point me to the correct configuration option? BTW, I'm using
> > qpopper on a Solaris 2.7 Sun.

What you're looking for is SMTP AUTH, which has nothing to do with
Qpopper.  Qpopper is POP3 server software, not SMTP server software, so it
is responsible only for delivering mail from the mail server to your
users' POP3 mail client software.  Mail sent the other direction - from
your users' POP3 mail client software to the mail server - is accepted by
your mail transport agent (your SMTP server software), not by Qpopper.

If you're using a Solaris box, the MTA is probably Sendmail.  Recent
versions of sendmail (8.10 and later I think) can be compiled to use SMTP
AUTH.  You're probably using the SMI distribution of sendmail, and AFAIK
there's no way to add SMTP AUTH to that.  You'll need to download the
source code from www.sendmail.org and compile it yourself.

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