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Diffstat (limited to 'qmail-smtpd.8')
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1 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qmail-smtpd.8 b/qmail-smtpd.8 index c4640b8..3e6cce2 100644 --- a/qmail-smtpd.8 +++ b/qmail-smtpd.8 @@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ qmail-smtpd \- receive mail via SMTP .SH SYNOPSIS .B qmail-smtpd +[ +.I hostname +.I checkprogram +.I subprogram +] .SH DESCRIPTION .B qmail-smtpd receives mail messages via the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) @@ -23,7 +28,29 @@ or header fields. .B qmail-smtpd -supports ESMTP, including the 8BITMIME and PIPELINING options. +supports ESMTP, including the 8BITMIME, PIPELINING, and AUTH options. + +.B qmail-smtpd +can accept LOGIN, PLAIN, and CRAM-MD5 AUTH types. It invokes +.IR checkprogram , +which reads on file descriptor 3 the username, a 0 byte, the password +or challenge derived from +.IR hostname , +another 0 byte, a CRAM-MD5 response (if applicable to the AUTH type), +and a final 0 byte. +.I checkprogram +invokes +.I subprogram +upon successful authentication, which should in turn return 0 to +.BR qmail-smtpd , +effectively setting the environment variables RELAYCLIENT and TCPREMOTEINFO +(any supplied value replaced with the authenticated username). +.B qmail-smtpd +will reject the authentication attempt if it receives a nonzero return +value from +.I checkprogram +or +.IR subprogram . .SH TRANSPARENCY .B qmail-smtpd converts the SMTP newline convention into the UNIX newline convention @@ -177,3 +204,6 @@ qmail-inject(8), qmail-newmrh(8), qmail-queue(8), qmail-remote(8) +.SH "HISTORY" +The patch enabling the ESMTP AUTH option is not part of the standard +qmail-1.03 distribution. |