Subject: Re: Pine authentication for Relayd (fwd)

From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:21:50 -0700 (PDT)

I received the following question, does any one know the answer?

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Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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From: [email-masked]
To: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:44:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Pine authentication for Relayd

I have a question though: my ISP has relayd (a relay checker program
that allows only authenticated users to relay through their SMTP
servers) installed on a Linux box. I am using Pine 4.21 on that box,
but I can't send email from pine! It says "relay denied, check mail
first" (meaning that it needs me to authenticate to POP3 before
being able to relay to SMTP. Is there a way for pine to do that?

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From: Frank Tobin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:52:51 -0500 (CDT)

Eduardo Chappa, at 11:21 -0700 on Fri, 18 Aug 2000, wrote:

> first" (meaning that it needs me to authenticate to POP3 before being
> able to relay to SMTP. Is there a way for pine to do that?

This seems like a strange scenario, catered to the Windows/Mac world.  
I'm curious if Pine on that box is configured to do the SMTP'ing itself to
the localhost, or does it call the mailer (e.g., sendmail) on the box?

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Frank Tobin		http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:12:43 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, [email-masked] wrote:

> my ISP has relayd (a relay checker program that allows only
> authenticated users to relay through their SMTP servers) installed
> on a Linux box. I am using Pine 4.21 on that box, but I can't send
> email from pine!

Random guess: Try adding a /user=xyzzy at the end of the SMTP server
specification.

Question: If on a Linux box, why bother with SMTP servers anyway ? Why
not just let Pine pass the message off to sendmail and let it directly
send the message ?

Gopi.

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Gopi Sundaram
[email-masked]

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From: Jacob Morzinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:13:51 -0400 (EDT)

It's hard to answer the question without knowing the details of
how your ISP's relay checker works.  I've heard of them, but
I'm not familiar with the procedure they follow to authenticate
a potential user.

 Jacob Morzinski                                [email-masked]

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