Yes authenticated SMTP is the only real answer, we will be going down
that route soon. We are in the middle of an email service upgrade at mo,
putting in 6 mail servers (exim 4 of course) 3 mail routers (running
perdition) and probably going to Cyrus IMAP. Once we get all this
working we will then move our users to authenticated SMTP over SSL (The
new mail routers have SSL accelerator cards).
Should be a busy summer. I will be at Phils bash in Cambridge on Monday
if anybody wants to talk about it, always willing to listen to other
peoples ideas.
Ron
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 12:05, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
> >>>>> "Ron" == Ron McKeating <R.J.Mckeating@???> writes:
>
> Ron> Yes but if the ISP insists it will only relay mail for addresses
> Ron> using its own domain name ie blah@??? then it is not
> Ron> much use if a member of staff wishes to send an important email
> Ron> from home and it needs to come from a University formal email
> Ron> address ie blah@???. So we have no choice but to get
> Ron> that person to connect to our mail server where we have
> Ron> configured it to allow them (and only them) to send email
> Ron> through. The we have to set up our config to ignore the fact
> Ron> that they are on a rbl.
>
> This is what authenticated SMTP is for. (preferably done on port 587
> rather than port 25, to avoid blocks or interception proxies)
>
> (Though I have little time for those who harp on about blocking mail
> from dial pools; it's certainly not an option for us (would piss off
> too many of our users), not to mention that relatively few ISPs are
> actually capable of providing reliable mail smarthosts.)
>
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> Andrew, Supernews
>
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Ron McKeating
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Internet Services and Software Solutions
Loughborough University
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