A lot of firewalls out there will authenticate any port you tell them to.
Check your f/w documentation.
-Jacob
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> HI =)
>
> Maybe you've run into the situation where you have your own email server
> and a few people connecting to it remotely to send and receive mail. It's
> easy to setup accounts for people and give them pop3 access, but a total
> pain when it comes to providing them with an smtp server. Sure, I can add
> their ip to /etc/mail/relay-domains to allow them to connect and send
> email. If they are on a dial-up connection with dynamic ip, I end up
> having to add the entire ip block. Eventually someone ends up using AOL as
> their ISP and .... well, I certainly don't want to open up smtp to everyone
> in AOL. The whole idea is to stop people from using my mail server as a
> relay point for junk mail and everyone knows those guys tend to lurk on
> AOL. So... this all leads to the search for better options. One idea was
> a web mail client people could use - then I'd only have to give access to
> the web server's ip. Everyone prefers their email client tho. I was
> wondering if maybe sendmail allows authenticated smtp of some sort. Then I
> could open up relaying to everyone who's authenticated. I'm not sure if
> this is available or even how to implement it if it is. Any ideas or
> recommendations? Does the last idea have merit or is there anything better
> out there?
>
> Thanks in advance =)
>
> -Ed
>
>
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