[Dovecot] vpopmail

[Marcus Rueckert]

On 2006-06-05 19:29:35 +0000, C J Kenneth Tan -- OptimaNumerics wrote:
> This is getting off-topic, but just to reply to your suggestions:
> 
> On 2006-06-04 20:30 +0200 Marcus Rueckert (rueckert at informatik.uni-rostock....:
> 
> > On 2006-06-04 17:28:36 +0000, C J Kenneth Tan -- OptimaNumerics wrote:
> > > I see the argument.  The objective here is to allow relay by Linux
> > > laptops running qmail which receive mail from Pine running on the
> > > laptops.  SMTP server would have SMTP level virus and spam check to
> > > counter this problem.
> > 
> > msmtp. you can teach pine to use that instead of the
> > /usr/(lib|bin)/sendmail binary. it handles that problem nicely for you.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll look into it. 
> 
> > otherwise mtas like postfix can talk smtp auth to other mail servers
> > aswell. [1] [2] [3]
> > Even Qmail can do it some how: http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html
> 
> I can get qmail-smtpd to do SMTP AUTH, patching against qmail-1.03.  I
> can also get qmail-remote to do SMTP AUTH, patching against
> qmail-1.03.  But I am having trouble getting them to work with
> qmail-1.03 plus all the other patches that I want.  
> 
> But like I said, this is getting off-topic.  My original post was
> about vpopmail authentication to get POP-before-SMTP changed between
> Dovecot 1.0.beta3 and 1.0.beta8.
> 

maybe look for an MTA that doesnt need so much patching? postfix is a
pretty nice alternative.

darix

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