[Dovecot] vpopmail

[C J Kenneth Tan -- OptimaNumerics]

Marcus,

On 2006-06-05 22:41 +0200 Marcus Rueckert (rueckert at informatik.uni-rostock....:

> On 2006-06-05 19:29:35 +0000, C J Kenneth Tan -- OptimaNumerics wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Thanks for the suggestion.


Ken
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