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Re: SMTP Auth Does Not Work



On Saturday, December 8 at 12:34 AM, quoth mozafar rowshan:
I have installed qmail (netqmail version) and patched it with Krzysztof Dabrowski SMTP Auth patch. But the mail server still operates as an open relay.

How do you know?


I only ask because there are many ways of "testing" an email server for being an open relay that are broken and give back false-positives (i.e. the server is not an open relay, but the test says that it is).

Other than that, I'd suggest asking the author of the SMTP AUTH patch.

Another thing about what you said that bothers me: the mail server "still" operates as an open relay. Did it operate as one before? Just adding the SMTP-AUTH capability will not close an open relay; all it does is allow people to authenticate before relaying. Think of it this way: a mail server that is not an open relay is a mail server behind a wall. SMTP-AUTH is a door in the wall. If your mail server was an open relay to start with, there's no wall, so adding a door is pretty pointless.

~Kyle
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