Am Mo, den 02.02.2004 schrieb Henry Hartley um 16:45:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Henry Hartley
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:39 AM
> >>
> >> One thing we still have not managed to get working correctly is
> >> the ability to send mail from local network clients. Clients can
> >> all read mail fine and by running pine or mutt on the server we
> >> can send mail without problems. But with Mozilla Mail (which is
> >> what our users mostly use) we are asked for a SMTP password and
> >> when it is provided, we are simply asked again, as though the
> >> password we provided were wrong (I'm pretty sure I'm getting it
> >> right).
> >> Sendmail-cf-8.12.10-1.1.1 on FC1
>
> For anyone reading this in the archives, the answer has nothing to
> do with server configuration (in our case, anyway). It had to do
> with a setting in Mozilla Mail. Right click on an email account
> and go to properties. Then, after the mail and news account(s)
> listed on the left is an entry for Outgoing Server (SMTP). Click
> on that and untick the box for "Use name and password" and our
> problem goes away.
>
> Apparently having that ticked didn't cause any problems previously
> but now it does.
>
> --
> Henry
:)
But hopefully you have now no open relay mailhost! It is normally safe
to have 'private IP addresses' in /etc/mail/access to relay for. For a
better control enable SMTP AUTH in sendmail.mc and reactivate the AUTH
settings in Mozilla for sending mail.
Alexander
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