Bug 122819
Summary: | Sendmail with SMTP Authinfo | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Chan Min Wai <dcmwai> |
Component: | sendmail | Assignee: | Thomas Woerner <twoerner> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | leonard-rh-bugzilla, rpaiz |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-06-14 12:47:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Chan Min Wai
2004-05-08 17:09:24 UTC
Sorry this is not a patch, just 2 line of code for /etc/mail/sendmail.mc Add dnl FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl for /etc/mail/Makefile @ line 10 POSSIBLE += $(shell test -f authinfo && echo authinfo.db) Add one more files /etc/mail/authinfo.README writting how the authinfo should be written AuthInfo:smtp.servername.or.ip "U:username" "P:password" "M:LOGIN" For M:LOGIN is the auth method. This looks like a "fix" that might be useful to 1 in 10 users, but would require the other 9 to comment out these options. Rather counter productive. I would say WONTFIX. Hm. Maybe my conclusion was too hasty. I oversaw this FEATURE is actually commented out. Still I am not sure if adding this is a big advantage. Time for a Vote? I think there might be a need for some Vote to happen for which bug to be addin :) But no hard for add them, As Adsl line is getting cheaper and not everyong is getting an static ip, mail sending will have to pass through the isp mail server somehow. So it is an advance to addin. Thank You Why the extra authinfo directive in sendmail.mc and an extra file? The AuthInfo data can go to the access file as well. Users should only care that then /etc/mail/access* should have chmod 640. This authinfo IS NOT for USERS but for the Sendmail server which will be connecting to a MAIL_HUB OR SMART_HOST (In other words, SMTP Server on the ISP/Co-Office) . But they will be a requirement to auth before sending mail. And this is why this Exists. leonard: Any Good news about this? Chan: It's not my bug. But if you want to know, I don't feel very strongly either way. Adding it wouldn't hurt, but not adding it wouldn't either. When you are setting up a mail server you should be studying the docs anyway, so having one more config option predefined in sendmail.mc shouldn't make a big difference. This is not a standard configuration and btw. is easy to set up. Closing as 'not a bug'. You're right, Thomas... it's not a bug. However, I think it's a valid RFE. More and more people are having need of AUTHINFO as ISP's start to require SMTP AUTH (which is in itself a good thing). So perhaps the way to solve it is just to add two or three lines of text to /etc/mail/access showing how to set it up quickly? Likely it will help more and more users over time. |