client smtp auth problem.

[monetron]

Hi,

i am testing the scalix 10 CE Server for our company.
Some of out users have an imap client integrated in their CRM application. This client is not able to be configured to authenticate when sending a email.
Is there a possibility to disable the authentication in the scalix mta ??
thank you for detailed answers because i am a newbie to scalix

[dkelly]

The only optioin you have in this case is to add a RELAY accept line in smtpd.cfg that has the IP address of the connecting clients.

Without authentication, the users will be able to send to other Scalix users but they will not be able to send to external users unless they either authentcate or you add the RELAY line.

Cheers

Dave

[monetron]

Thank you for your answer.

ist it possible to add a range of ip adress or a network ? eg 192.168.* ????

[monetron]

i tryed your hint, but it is not working .....

All clients eg. outlook express, outlook and thunderbird are working well
Only the clients who are not able to be configured for smtp authentication are not able to send messages.
Is there really no way to disable authentication ??
It's sad because in this case further testing isn't worth, our future email server has to work with the imap client inside our crm application.

regards uwe

[dkelly]

Message submission only fails if the submitting client is trying to send to a non-Scalix address. The SMTP Relay doesn't have the concept of enabling or disabling authentication, it goes through the following logic:

1) If the recipient address is found in the Scalix SYSTEM directory, the message is allowed.
2) If the recipient address is not found in the directory, that's marked as an attempt to relay.
3) If the message is a relay attempt, is the user authenticated. If yes, allow the relay.
4) If the message is a relay attempt, is the user's IP address in the RELAY accept lines. If yes, allow the relay.
5) If the message is a relay attempt, is the recipient address in a domain that is listed in the RELAY accept lines. If yes, allow the relay.

Are you saying that you are not able to meet any of those conditions ?

Cheers

Dave

[monetron]

Thank you very much for you help Dave !!

i added RELAY accept CRMusersdomain.net to smtpd.cfg
after applying changes to smtpd.cfg i forgot to do a omoff -d0 smtpd;omon smtpd

and now it is working....