You may want to try running through the installation over at
http://www.qmailrocks.org. The installation they have includes smtp
auth. I installed it on my system and it works great.

Seeya

xbradx@hotmail.com (Brad Wenner) wrote in message news:<100ce544.0307132130.5ae0158d@posting.google. com>...
> I am trying to setup SMTP AUTH to avoid being an open relay. I applied
> the patch I found on qmail.org and after recompiling and starting up
> qmail again it doesn't look like it's requiring me to authenticiate
> when sending mail. (in Outlook I unchecked "my smtp server requires me
> to log on" and sent a message that went through).
>
> I feel like I'm missing a step but I can't find anything in the
> documentation. Is there something I'm supposed to configure to get
> SMTP AUTH to work or do you just recompile and it's there?
>
> Any help appreciated, I'm new to qmail and mail servers in general and
> was so proud I got everything up and working, only to be stumped by
> this :).
>
> -brad
> brad[]outofstep.org