[ale] Bellsouth Turning SMTP authentication on on their mail server

[james at sumners.ath.cx]

I misunderstood. I didn't realize you were using sendmail to send
through Bellsouth's mail servers. I thought you were just wanting to
authorize users on your server.

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:35:16AM -0400, Mike Murphy wrote:
> I use TLS too, to authenticate remote connections to my mail server at 
> home (mostly from my laptop when I'm on the road). However, the problem 
> presented by Bellsouth here is different:
> 
> They are requiring all of their clients to authenticate to send mail, 
> starting Jul 13 (next Tuesday). If I were running a regular client, say 
> thunderbird from home, and using their mail server, I'd have to 
> configure it to pass my username and password when it sends mail.
> 
> The challenge here is configuring sendmail to do the same thing, when it 
> talks to bellsouth's mail server. To recap, I already have:
> 
> "DS[mail.bellsouth.net]" in my sendmail.cf. This tells it to relay all 
> mail through bellsouth's mail server (and the brackets tell it to use 
> that server's A name from dns, not its MX addresses).
> 
> Now, in addition, I have to add (from 
> http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/sm-812.html#812AUTH):
> O DefaultAuthInfo=/etc/mail/default-auth-info
> 
> This tells sendmail (at least sendmail 8.12 and newer), to look in 
> /etc/mail/default-auth-info for authorization info. That file has this 
> in it:
> AuthInfo:mail.bellsouth.net "U:[my username]" "P:[my password]"
> 
> In theory that should make sendmail now authenticate before it tries to 
> relay mail (just like any client would).
> 
> Now that I know how to do this in sendmail.cf, I need to figure out how 
> to do it using a rule in sendmail.mc (since I'd prefer to not directly 
> edit sendmail.cf if I can avoid it). Or, I guess I could finally get off 
> my duff and learn exim or something.
> 
> Unfortunately, mail.bellsouth.net still isn't offering AUTH, so I can't 
> really test this to see if it works correctly. I guess I'll have to do 
> so after they turn it on on the 13th.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> james at sumners.ath.cx wrote:
> >I just configured my Exim server to do it:
> >http://ug.dyndns.org/~jsumners/comments.php?article=157
> >
> >But, of course, if you have relaying denied and you are the only one
> >that uses it then who cares?
> >
> >On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:22:15AM -0400, Mike Murphy wrote:
> >
> >>I got this from Bellsouth today. It seems they will soon be requiring 
> >>SMTP clients to authenticate before sending mail. Now, if I can just 
> >>remember how to configure sendmail to do that...
> >>
> >>Mike
> >
> >
> 
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