Topic: Best Solution for remote SMTP in 5.6

[Danny Wong]

I have read many posts reguarding remote access of SMTP services on a SME server 5.5 and earlier.  I.E. pop before SMTP etc.  Does anyone have a recomendation of what solution would be best for a 5.6 installation?  Aparently pop before SMTP does not work on 5.6 and sIMAP and sPOP3 require specific clients.  

What I want is to be able to allow remote users to use the SMTP server as they do when they are local.

Suggestions?

[Upaboveit]

I've seen a few solutions on the board. One that I tried was found here: http://www.pagefault.org/code/e-smith.shtml#securemail

However, the instructions aren't so clear (or my brain isn't so clear) and after trying to install things I had the new control panel item for secure email settings and the option to open up port 25 to authenticated users but something was seriously broken. No one on the external side could access ANY email. Not even webmail.

*sigh*

I's be really, really, REALLY greatful if some bright spark could take a few minutes and write a step by step set of instructions that I can follow to the letter and get authenticated SMTP functional on a brand spanking new 5.6 install (or with U3 applied). Even better, an .rpm that I can just install and then reboot (if necessary) the server.

[Bill Talcott]

Use Damien's contrib at pagefault.org. I installed it on 5.5 with absolutely no problems using his directions. You just have to install a few RPMs and enable it in Server Manager. Note that 5.6 uses separate files. It won't work if you use the 5.5 RPMs.

You don't need anything special to use it, other than a client that supports secure connections on those ports.

Nathan's pop-before-smtp script (which I used before switching to 5.5) simply looks for incoming connections to the POP3/IMAP server and gives those IPs temporary SMTP access. It doesn't actually require an authenticated login, so it's not 100% secure. It simply tacks those IPs onto a text file containing a list of acceptable addresses. 5.5 switched to a mail program that doesn't use that file, so it won't work in 5.5+.

[Bill Talcott]

Bill Talcott wrote:
>
> You don't need anything special to use it, other than a
> client that supports secure connections on those ports.

Well, the client needs to support authenticated SMTP, it just uses a secure connection so that your password isn't sent in plaintext. Outlook, Outlook Express, and Mozilla all work fine with it.

[Danny Wong]

Do I need to open these ports?  OR does the RPM's do it for me?