Yep, this is what I was looking for. I'm running RH 7.3 Thanks for the point in the right direction. > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Jim Streit wrote: > *snip: what he's trying to accomplish* >> My question, how do I setup my sendmail server to only allow >> authenticated users to be able to send mail thru my server, and not >> make the server an open relay. (Like an ISP) >> >> I've searched Yahoo and a sendmail book, but I haven't really found >> what I'm looking for. (I don't know if I've been using the correct >> terminology, so far i've been looking for things like - client smtp >> authentication relay ...) Does anyone know how to do what I'm to do, >> or can point me in the right direction. > > I think what you're looking for is SASL, Simple Authentication and > Security Layer. I'm not sure what distro/release you're using, but it > looks like RedHat's included SASL in their sendmail RPMs since at > least 7.2, which is nice, because I've had to patch the one from 6.2. > Here's the URL that got me started with SASL: > > http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html > > Hopefully this is what you needed. > > Jima > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list