Topic: rcpthosts - Can it not be Secure?

[Luiz]

OK - So just say I want to be stupid and open myself up to RELAY.

I have a bunch of Users that rome and dont want to have to play with their desktop setting all the time and always want to connect to e-smith.

Is it not passible to limit those who use my server as a SPAM server.

Authentication, like in MS Exchange?

I only ask cause I need to set it up like this, in the most secure way possible.

Thanks.

[Charlie Brady]

Luiz wrote:

> I have a bunch of Users that rome and dont want to have to play
> with their desktop setting all the time and always want to
> connect to e-smith.

That doesn't really make sense.  When you travel, you use the local post office, you don't courier your postcards back to base for them to be posted there. But anyway ...

> Is it not passible to limit those who use my server as a SPAM
> server.

No.

> Authentication, like in MS Exchange?

As far as I know, nobody has developed that feature for the mail transport agent used in e-smith.

> I only ask cause I need to set it up like this, in the most
> secure way possible.

If you can be a little patient, I'm working on PPTP VPN support, so that your roaming users can use win9x builtin PPTP VPN client, which works analogous to dialing in over an encrypted Internet connection, rather than dialing in over the phone system. Keep looking here for an announcement of an experimental version.

You'll find some documentation to help set up your Win* client machines here:

http://www.moretonbay.com/vpn/help.html

Regards

Charlie