[imp] how to deal with sendmail starttls and auth?

[jlewis@lewis.org]

Is there any reason to require SMTP-auth when connecting from localhost?
I thought the whole point of SMTP-auth was to be able to allow relaying by
non-local hosts without either being an open relay or using one of the
SMTP-after-POP utilities.

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I set up Horde/IMP from yesterdays cvs snapshot and I am amazed. Only thing
> which does not work is sending mail.
>
> The system on which IMP runs acts as a host for several virtual domains. For
> user authentification sending mail I installed sendmail 8.12.3 with SMTP
> AUTH (sasl) and STARTTLS (using a self signed certificate just for the
> handshake to encrypt plain text passwort authentification like used by
> Outlook). So users install my own CA's certificate so that mail client don't
> blames about unproofed ssl certificate and have to give their username and
> password for beeing allowed to send mail.
>
> Handling IMAPS with IMP is pretty easy, even with self signed certificates.
> But is there too a way for using sendmail with STARTTLS and AUTH?
>
> Greetings
>
> Alexander
>
>
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