Re: [cobalt-users] Authenticated SMTP?

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Rick Eames" <athos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When my users are out and about, they use IMAP.  But then they can't
> authenticate to SMTP.  Are there any RPM's out there to give me
> authenticated SMTP on the Qube3?  How do others solve this problem?

There are no RPMs that I am aware of.  You can have them setup a POP account
in their email client that uses the same username and leaves the messages on
the server and have them initiate a receive from that account before
sending.  The POP before SMTP package stores the user's IP address after
authenticating so it doesn't even have to be the same username.  Sure, it's
not ideal and it's a pain in some email clients, but it works.  I once wrote
a script to allow users to login via a web form which wrote their IP to the
file used by the POP before SMTP package, but unfortunately I lost track of
it a while ago.  The clients who used it liked the solution.  You could also
write a script to parse the maillog for successful logins to imapd and grab
the IP and dump it into to IP file used by the POP before STMP package.

HTH,

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