How to setup smtp auth

Reuben D. Budiardja techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Fri Apr 16 13:53:56 UTC 2004


On Friday 16 April 2004 09:22 am, Chris Mason wrote:
> I have a redhat 9 server. I want to faciliate our zaurus pda users on WiFi
> hotspots so I need to allow roaming users to access smtp. To this end I
> need to setup auth to prevent spammers.
>
> Everything I have read about setting up smtp_auth requires TLS but I don't
> want encryption as the zaurus email client does not support it. Can anyone
> give me a simple step by step explanation usinf the sendmail.mc
> configuration macros to set up plain or login auth?

I followed this and have it running in short time:

http://www.simpaticus.com/linux/sendmail-smtp-auth-howto.php

This is written by Rodolfo Pais, our own list member.

RDB
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