qmail->upstream SMTP AUTH?

[John Conover]

Has qmail been used in an industrial strength environment to relay
upstream traffic to a server that requires SMTP AUTH?

         Thanks,

         John

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[Roman Levitskiy-3]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 20:15:56 -0700, John Conover wrote:
> Has qmail been used in an industrial strength environment to relay
> upstream traffic to a server that requires SMTP AUTH?

What you mean by "industrial strength environment" and how this
corrrelate with SMTP AUTH ?

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Best, Roman

[John R. Levine]

>Has qmail been used in an industrial strength environment to relay
>upstream traffic to a server that requires SMTP AUTH?

I don't know what "industrial strength" means either, but I can
think of a couple of straightforward ways to do it.

One is to patch qmail-remote to do SMTP AUTH.  Several people
have done this, for example you can start here:

http://tomclegg.net/qmail/#qmail-remote-auth

Another possibility would be to use a freestanding smtp auth client like
msmtp, and virtual domains to route mail through it, e.g. set up a
user called remote, put the msmtp config info into ~remote/.msmtprc,
then put this in virtualdomains:

:remote

and put somehing like this in ~remote/.qmail-default

| msmtp --from="$SENDER" -- "$DEFAULT@$HOST"

R's,
John