Re: [cobalt-users] [Raq-2] E-mail Authentication

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Chris "Oger" Gebhardt wrote:

> Hi List -
>
> Searching the archives, I have been able to find pieces of the information
> that I'm looking for, but no concise answer to my exact question, so I'm
> wondering if someone might be able to help me out.  Here is my situation:
>
> Have a Raq-2, POP before SMTP enabled.
>
> Have a handful of users that, due to their "unique" dial-up connections,
> compose their e-mails offline, then log on to send & receive, then the mail
> client automatically closes the dial-up connection.  Due to the fact that
> they are assigned a new IP address just about every time they log on, this
> presents quite a bit of trouble for their authentication into the Raq-2
> mailserver.

Why are they having trouble, tell them to pop their mail first.
poprelayd will put them in the db and they have 15 minutes to send their
mail.
>
> Is there a way to have the POP before SMTP enabled, but ALSO add a
> "whitelist" consisting of a group or range of IP addresses that are always
> allowed to SMTP?
>
You can add their ip address (range?) to the relay for domains in
IIRC on a RaQ2 control-panel->email->parameters
But be aware, you could be opening up your server for spammers.

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