What's the best way to automatically swap smart hosts (sendmail)?

Travis Roy travis at scootz.net
Tue Jul 1 09:55:36 EDT 2003


Oh, one more thing.. Since you're going to do some work for this.. At the
same time you should set up secure pop/imap and secure stmp at the same
time.. Passing all these passwords for your email in plain text probably
isn't a good idea. I used to use stunnel.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org]On Behalf Of Travis Roy
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 9:52 AM
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> Subject: RE: What's the best way to automatically swap smart hosts
> (sendmail)?
>
>
> Another way is pop-auth.
>
> You check your mail and then your IP address is put into a file and you're
> allowed to send for some time (usually 15mins)
>
> I did that for a long time until I switched to SMTP auth.
> MediaOne also did
> pop-auth for a long time.
>
> This is what I used - http://poprelay.sourceforge.net/
>
> But smtp auth is probably the way to go.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org
> > [mailto:gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org]On Behalf Of
> > bscott at ntisys.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 9:46 AM
> > To: Greater NH Linux User Group
> > Subject: Re: What's the best way to automatically swap smart hosts
> > (sendmail)?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, at 9:31am, f at ke1g.mv.com wrote:
> > > 	Can anyone think of any cool ways to do this?
> >
> >   Use an SMTP relay that supports SMTP authentication, and will
> > allow relay
> > from outside the local network if SMTP AUTH is done.  Configure
> > Sendmail to
> > use that relay at all times, and to use SMTP AUTH.
> >
> >   That will only not work if you travel between more than one
> network that
> > blocks TCP 25 outbound.  If that's the case, yell.  :)
> >
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