True, but then traveling users would have to connect to the vpn before they could get their email. 2 many steps for them.
Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Matt Zagrabelny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:31 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Email login options On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 10:49 -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > I have a Debian woody server that runs our email (ipopd, 2001adebian-6 > & exim, 3.35-1woody3). We use MS outlook (Office XP) as an email > client. I currently have SMTP use limited to the net block of our > office, this causes people in remote sites to have to use EarthLink > for SMTP, or in my case Bellsouth. Pop is set up to authenticate using > Kerberos from a Windows domain controller. The email server and domain > controller are located at different sites > > What I am looking for are solutions/best practices for SMTP > authentication so local and remote users can use our SMTP server, and > pop authentication without depending on the Windows domain. Does > anyone have any suggestions that does not require sending passwords > over clear text and allows for easy to manage passwords without having > to log into the mail server to change a users password. > > This is what my boss is asking. > "remove dependency of domain controller to email, What are our > options? Surely there are best practices for this that don't involve > having users ssh in to maintain their pw's." not smtp authentication per se, but vpn would solve the problem. -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
