The Qualcomm POP server has an XTND XMIT command that requires
authorization (POP login) before being able to send mail. If your
users are using Eudora, it's a neat solution. It's relatively secure
because of the login and the pipe to sendmail is local to the machine.
At 2:25 PM -0400 9/26/01, James Stansfield wrote:
> > Oh, you _can_ set it up that way, but I would really discourage doing so.
>> It usually turns you into a spam site in less than a week. Tell your pop
>> users to use their own isp's smtp server for sending mail out. The only
>> exception I would consider would be if the remote user has a connection
>> with a static ip. You may be taling about pop-before-relay (we don't
>> include the patches for that), but since pop sends username and password
>> over clear text, it's insecure anyway.
>
> Yeah but more and more ISPs aren't allowing their SMTP to send email
>from accounts that aren't on their system. Roaming users require a single
>SMTP server for their hosted domain based email. Case in point: my office's
>mail server will only relay email based on our domain's email addresses. So
>in this case I couldn't send email out using their internet connection with
>my personal domain. Thus the need for an external SMTP server from my ISP
>(office)...
> What do you thinkg of Don's suggestion of popauth? It looks like a good
>idea to me.
>
> //James
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