Remote User's SMTP relay authorization

[John Gibson]

Etienne Goyer wrote:

>Sorry, I don't have any useful insight about SMTP AUTH, but this in
>particuliar struck me :
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>On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:39:54AM -0800, John Gibson wrote:
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>>2. Remote/Roaming POP
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>I am not sure what you mean, but I believe your users will be better
>served by IMAP.  Especially people who happen to work from multiple
>location (if that is what you mean by "roaming").  It will also let you
>use a webmail package for remote access to mail, something that is much
>trickier with POP.
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>Just my 0,02$.
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Thanks for your reply.

Roaming ( my def.) : Users who access the internet from multiple IP 
addresses most of which are dynamically allocated (therefore unknown in 
advance).

We do not want to support  permanent email storage at this time.  We 
just want people to be able to retrieve their mail and provide SMTP 
sending capability.  We want the IMAP/POP mail server to not require our 
linux host to have system logins for any of the mail users.  We want a 
scalable solution which can be flexible when our requirements change. 
 We would prefer to allow users to select their own mail client (or at 
least provide a list of ones that will work with our setup).

The SMTP sending capability seems to be the biggest issue.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

...john



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