Why are only admins allowed to AUTH to lmtpd?

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> This is all working fine, except that I had to add my dummy authentication user
> (which I create solely for Exim to authenticate itself to lmtpd with) to the
> "admins" entry in /etc/imapd.conf. I had to do this because lmptd specifically
> allows only admins to authenticate.

use lmtp_admins if you don't want to give that user full admin rights.

> Is there any particular reason why? It's not a big deal for me, but when
> I document this configuration for other people I'm sure this will raise
> some eyebrows.

There's no reason regular users should be submitting to the LMTP server,
they should be submitting using SMTP to an SMTP server, and then the LMTP
server trusts the SMTP server.  This (admitedly marginaly) simplifies the
authorization code in lmtpd.

-Rob

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