From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 23 13:26:41 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 13:26:39 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F3B937B400 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 13:26:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 20531 invoked by uid 100); 23 Dec 2000 21:26:38 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14917.6286.157813.185207@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:26:38 -0600 (CST) To: "Jason Halbert" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Servers In-Reply-To: <106420272@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Halbert types: > Here's my goal: > I have a [small, I guess] server. I give out shells to my friends and > let them host their web sites on it and let them use it for storing > files and such. I thought it would be cool to have my own mail > servers and stuff so everyone that has a shell could have an e-mail at > my domian. > > Instead of having to add the host of everyone that has a shell and > allowing them to relay, since most of them are on dial-up, is it > possible to require a username and password auth. for them to send > mail to the SMTP server? That way only authorized users with a shell > would have access and then by default when I add a user they are ready > to go without me needing to modify files? Why bother having them send mail to your SMTP server? Especially when it's becoming common for ISPs to disallow clients to access any external SMTP server as an anti-spam measure. Instead, have them send mail through their ISPs SMTP server, configure their UMA to use their email address in your domain, and read mail from your pop server. You might also show them how to set up a forward from your server to their ISP, so they don't have to check them both. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message