smtp auth question

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

BW> I feel like I'm missing a step [...]

You could well be. Count the number of arguments that you are giving to
"qmail-smtpd". Compare it to the number of arguments given in the example in
the documentation. (-:

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

There is one case allowing user to send mail even the qmail is patched with
authentication. That is when sending with the recipient address on your
domain (anything send to your domain), it will work. So If you try to send
to yourself, it will be successful even no authentication provided.

And, if you set 192.:allow (suppose your network segment is 192.*.*.* ) from
your tcp.smtp, it will still works. So doint test remotely is a good idea.

Leo

"Brad Wenner" <xbradx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:100ce544.0307132130.5ae0158d@posting.google.c om...
> 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