Am Mo, den 02.02.2004 schrieb Henry Hartley um 16:45:
-----Original Message----- From: Henry Hartley Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:39 AM
One thing we still have not managed to get working correctly is the ability to send mail from local network clients. Clients can all read mail fine and by running pine or mutt on the server we can send mail without problems. But with Mozilla Mail (which is what our users mostly use) we are asked for a SMTP password and when it is provided, we are simply asked again, as though the password we provided were wrong (I'm pretty sure I'm getting it right). Sendmail-cf-8.12.10-1.1.1 on FC1
For anyone reading this in the archives, the answer has nothing to do with server configuration (in our case, anyway). It had to do with a setting in Mozilla Mail. Right click on an email account and go to properties. Then, after the mail and news account(s) listed on the left is an entry for Outgoing Server (SMTP). Click on that and untick the box for "Use name and password" and our problem goes away.
Apparently having that ticked didn't cause any problems previously but now it does.
-- Henry
:)
But hopefully you have now no open relay mailhost! It is normally safe to have 'private IP addresses' in /etc/mail/access to relay for. For a better control enable SMTP AUTH in sendmail.mc and reactivate the AUTH settings in Mozilla for sending mail.
Alexander