Am Fr, den 09.07.2004 schrieb Bob Chiodini um 17:39: > My DSL ISP, bellsouth.net has informed its customers that they will > require SMTP authorization to send email through their servers. I have > a small network at home consisting of a windows XP, a windows 2000, and > a FC2 box, and have set up the FC2 box as a relay for the other boxes in > the network. I use define(`SMART_HOST',`[mail.bellsouth.net]') in > sendmail.mc. This has been working well since long before FC2. Why the Bellsouth SMTP server in squared brackets? > Now that bellsouth.net is changing their policy, it seems that each user > must reconfigure their email clients (Outlook express, Evolution and > Thunderbird) to send SMTP AUTH mail directly to bellsouth.net's server. > Bellsouth.net also blocks inbound port 25 and presumably outbound except > to their server, WRT my FC2 box. Not much a point paying for that fixed > IP address. > > The questions/problem: > > Is there a way to configure sendmail to use SMTP AUTH between my FC2 box > and bellsouth.net, but not between my users and my FC2 box (short of > finding another ISP). I would like to keep sendmail between my users > and bellsouth.net, at least for logging reasons. I have 3-4 days while > bellsouth.net is accepting email with or without using SMTP AUTH. Put into the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc FEATURE(`authinfo')dnl Create a file /etc/mail/authinfo with content AuthInfo:mail.bellsouth.net "U:your_username" "P:your_password" "M:PLAIN" Be sure the authinfo file is "chmod 640" and "chown root:root". Then run "make -C /etc/mail". That's all. > On the email receiving side, I use Cyrus IMAP and fetchmail. Nothing > here will probably require changing. No, you can leave that unchanged. > Bob... Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 Serendipity 18:00:38 up 2 days, 9 users, load average: 0.46, 0.41,
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