[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The actual mail server uses a postfix vmail database on a mysql engine, I didn't want to try to authenticate against it because if I get this "smtp auth proxy" working then I can use it in other circumstances. One of my clients is running netware for their email server, I don't know if it does smtp authentication but that would be a good example of a situation where you would want to use the existing smtp server for authentication.
If they are actually running Netware, you would be better off authenticating directly with eDirectory via LDAP, but I can see the point of having a smtp-proxy-auth. The difficulty will be if the remote SMTP server requires TLS before passing cleartext passwords, or if the remote server requires CRAM-MD5 (which you *cannot* proxy for, that being a man-in-the-middle attack which is impossible with hashed passwords).
John
