sending mail wiht sendmail and Mozilla

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 19.01.2004 schrieb Rodolfo J. Paiz um 15:54:
> At 02:47 1/19/2004, you wrote:
> >I recently moved my RH 9 Mailsystem to a new server with Fedora 1. In the 
> >old settings, users had mozilla configured that way, that they had to use 
> >there user and password to send mails (Mozillla Mail -> Mail & Newsgroup 
> >Account Settings -> Outgouing Server (SMTP) -> Use name and Password).
> >
> >Now with the new Server they have to deactivate this feature.
> >
> >Which sendmailoption do I have forgotten? ;-)
> 
> Read the Sendmail SMTP AUTH HOWTO at:
> 
> http://www.simpaticus.com/linux
> 
> For Fedora, when you are editing sendmail.mc, remember to to change the "A 
> p" in confAUTH_OPTIONS to just "A" (that is, remove the "p"). I have not 
> had time to make this change in the actual HOWTO.

May I ask for what reason you recommend to allow unencrypted plain
authentication? You should better explain how to enable STARTTLS to
secure PLAIN/LOGIN mechanisms.

Alexander


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