Re: Patch: Add SMTP_AUTH-support

[Thomas Lohmüller]

We use smtp-auth more as spam-blocker as for authentification. Everyone uses the same credentials. So clear-text is not a problem.

SMTP over SSL (SMTPS) works exactly the same as SMTP. So this patch should work as is. I have no idea on how to add ssl-support to SMTP. As I know SMTP/TLS is more common than SMTPS but would be much harder to implement than SMTPS.

I'll try to use the existing SSL-code to add SMTPS-support.

2007/7/30, Jan-Henrik Haukeland <address@hidden>:

Looks useful. Though sending credentials  in clear text... at least
and SSL option would be nice if we first add this patch. I must admit
I'm not very familiar with SMTP auth, but could this implementation
work over SSL? If so and since monit's support SSL, making this
connection and auth over SSL should be easy.

On 30. jul. 2007, at 10.26, Thomas Lohmüller wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Last week I discovered your great product and installed it on a
> server. The only feature missing was smtp-auth. So I wrote this
> patch. I hope this will be integrated in monit...
>
> Notes:
> - Code does only support "PLAIN" mechanism which sends username and
> password unencrypted.
> - Does cleanly compile on release-4.9 (I was not able to compile
> current CVS even without this patch).
> - Integration in parser is very rudimental because I don't know lex
> & yacc (see below).
> - Works-for-me...
>
> How to use it:
> set mailserver MAILSERVER USERNAME PASSWORD
>
> It would be great if someone is able to cleanly integrate this
> features.
>
> Thomas<smtp_auth.patch>


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