On Friday 18 April 2003 08:28 pm, waynej at dccmn.com wrote:
> Outlook, etc appears to support authentication on mail connections.
> Anyone know how to set this up with sendmail?  Is this what sasl is used
> for?

Exim will allow you to do smtp authentication (so will any modern MTA).

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.00/doc/html/spec_32.html

A quick summary, is the MUA (mail client like Outlook) will authentica with 
the MTA (mail server like exim) using (for instance) username/password. 

If authentication is sucessful, the MTA will relay the mail. So, this allows 
unknown IP address -with- proper authentication to relay email to then 
Internet at large.

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