[xmail] Re: SMTP External Authentication

2004-11-19 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
I have one quick question, and then I think I have got it. When is the useredit called from $XMAIL_ROOT/userauth/pop3/domain.tab? What I am planning is to write a script that takes the place of the passwd program that calls CtrlClnt to change the password in xmail, which calls said file and

[xmail] Re: SMTP External Authentication

2004-11-18 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
I guess I never thought of that. That would work great. The only problem is getting the password to two places. I would have to look into the crypt() function, which would mean I need to brush up on my C :D Thanks Davide. Dustin C. Hatch Davide Libenzi wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Dustin

[xmail] Re: SMTP External Authentication

2004-11-17 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
I looked further into the docs on SMTP authentication, and they were no help. All I got out of that was external as in another mail server. My question still remains: why does external POP3 authentication not take place when sending emails? It works just fine otherwise, downloading messages

[xmail] Re: SMTP External Authentication

2004-11-17 Thread Tracy
Um, perhaps I'm missing something obvious here, but... POP3 is not involved in the sending of messages, hence there is no reason for POP3 authentication to be used when sending messages. If you want to use external authentication for sending messages then you need to set up SMTP

[xmail] Re: SMTP External Authentication

2004-11-17 Thread Charles Frolick
Hello Dustin, Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 6:32:54 AM, you wrote: DCH I looked further into the docs on SMTP authentication, and they were no DCH help. All I got out of that was external as in another mail server. My DCH question still remains: why does external POP3 authentication not take

[xmail] Re: SMTP External Authentication

2004-11-17 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
Thunderbird is my MUA of choice, and I am not sure what it does to authenticate me, but it prompts for a password. Also, I have null webmail, and it does work. I am going to install ethereal on this box and watch as I try to send mail, to see how it connects to the server for authentication