Re: [courier-users] smtp auth howto

[Sam V. <mr...@co...>]

David Benfell writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there a reasonably up to date HOWTO on getting SMTP
> authentication working?

I don't know of any HOWTO, perhaps that's because there's not really much to  
document here. It's not clear what you're trying to do. You could mean  
either Courier using a smarthost for outgoing mail and authenticating to it.  
Or, having clients authenticate to Courier in order to gain relaying  
privileges. These are two completely separate things, and have nothing to do  
with each other. To have Courier authenticate to a smarthost, see  
"esmtpauthclient" in the courier man page. To enable authentication for  
relaying privileges, there are instructions in INSTALL, copied here:  
http://www.courier-mta.org/install.html#esmtpauth. The same code that  
authenticates IMAP, POP3, and webmail logins also does SMTP authentication,  
so if you can log into your IMAP mailbox, you can authenticate for relaying  
privilege, after enabling.

That's pretty much it.