I found that my SMTP server (qmail by the way) was blocking TMDA from sending confirmation requests. In this case, wouldn't it be that TMDA is being invoked by one of the qmail users? That was my reasoning for puting the username and password in /etc/tmdarc anyway. Is my reasong correct?
Andrew Jason R. Mastaler wrote: > Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>I'm using an SMTP server that requires authentication. In order to >>keep TMDA working, I've added SMTPAUTH_USERNAME and >>SMTPAUTH_PASSWORD parameters into my /etc/tmdarc file. > > > As you're probably aware, /etc/tmdarc is for global settings which > affect every TMDA user on the system. Since SMTP AUTH > username/password is generally user-specific, wouldn't it make more > sense to add this to your personal ~/.tmda/config instead? > > >>Since the password is plain text, I'd like to lock down this file as >>much as possible. Can I remove world read access to the file? The >>file belongs to user and group root. > > > User `andrew' (or whatever the username driving TMDA is) will need to > be able to read the file, otherwise the settings in it won't stick. > _____________________________________________ > tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users > _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
