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Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function'
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Richard Riley |
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Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function' |
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Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:42:29 +0200 |
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Times have moved on. All other modern mail readers have moved on from
>> trying to use the local MTA to send email out, because the world has
>> changed. These days, it's way more likely that you need to talk to your
>> ISPs local servers directly, and you need to fill out some credentials
>> tied to your account.
>>
>> If a client program can do that, why can't Exim do that?
>
> Because SMTP is slowly moving towards a regime of per-user
> authentication.
>
> That is, to send someone email these days, you often have to provide a
> user name and a password. If you're the only one sending mail from your
> machine, it's theoretically possible to configure exim to provide these
> credentials to the upstream MTA. (At least I think it's possible -- I
> haven't actually checked.) If there are two people sending email from
> your machine, that obviously isn't what you want to do, what with the
> password then being shared and stuff.
Assuming I havent got completely lost here, exim4 "smart hosts" are a
doddle to configure. But only for one user. For more than one email
account/smtp smarthost there are a plethora of google hits some of which
might work - matching email and/or user to the corect authentication
details needed for that user/email specific smarthost. If thats not
relevant excuse the intrusion.
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', (continued)
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/06/26
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/26
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/28
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/06/29
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/06/29
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Teemu Likonen, 2011/06/29
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/29
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/29
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function',
Richard Riley <=
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Tim Cross, 2011/06/29
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/06/30
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Andreas Schwab, 2011/06/30
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/30
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', David De La Harpe Golden, 2011/06/26
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Stefan Monnier, 2011/06/26
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/26
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/26