[rt-users] SMTP auth in RT.

[Mauricio Tavares]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Kenneth Marshall <ktm at rice.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:03:55AM +0530, H Manohar Rayker wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>>
>>
>> Could anyone please show me how to implement SMTP auth technically in RT so
>> that I can send mails to different domain users? I tried following the wiki
>> but could not get clear cut idea where to make the changes. I've added some
>> of the SMTP directives in RT configuration but nowhere found the option to
>> enter user name & password for SMTP authentication.
>>
>>
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>> I am using Centos 5.3, RT 3.8.4, sendmail 8.13.8, mysql 5.0.45
>>
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>> Thanks
>>
>> Manohar
>>
>
> One solution is to take advantage of the client SMTP AUTH support
> of your MTA. For sendmail see:
>
> http://www.sendmail.org/m4/smtp_auth.html
>
     I second that. Now, that does not mean you need to install a
full-blown MTA in your RT box (our security guidelines orders us not
to). We run msmtp (it has a bit more features than ssmtp) in ours and
all it does is send the emails out to our mail server proper.

> Cheers,
> Ken
>
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