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On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:53:23AM -0400, Richard Welty wrote:
| second best is to set up SMTP AUTH on port 25, and only permit relay for
| those who successfully authorize with it.
Just curious, why is this second best? With exim 4 you can also
restrict AUTH to TLS-enabled connections.
| if your user base has any sophistication,
Not a necessary requirement. Both putty and teraterm (windows ssh
clients) can be set up with "profiles" so that the user merely needs
to click a shortcut on their desktop. The rest is "magic" and Just
Works. (once the MUA is set to use 'localhost' as the server)
| then another alternative is to install ssh on their remote systems
| and tunnel the SMTP connections so they come from localhost on the
| mail transport system.
This is a pretty decent solution, IMO, if the users have shell
accounts.
-D
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Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly.
It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with.
-- Dave Parnas
http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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