Re: MSA authentication

Steven Kurylo wrote:
> That completely depends on how your entire system is configured and
> the tools you are using. Again, you're not going to get useful
> answers.
>
> There are a lot of tutorials on google on how to setup SMTP auth, like
> this one
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/280
>
> To have the spam check skipped based on auth will depend on program
> being used. I use sa-exim and its quite easy to do.

Yeah, SMPT-AUTH is the definite solution.

In Postfix you specify that they should get a username/password
authentication via a permit_authenticated, and then you specify some
method (like SASL, which can be pointed at an IMAP or POP3 server,
effectively letting SMTP work the same as your IMAP or POP3
[login/password], which is less confusing to customers).

Make sure you also setup SSL and SPF records if you want to reduce the
spam identification (I *finally* got a system that rejected email from
Thock sentthanks to SPF! Yay!). Some systems (EG: AOL) are very
persnickety and won't work ever.
Received on Tue May 8 18:51:23 2007