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[Dott. Andrea Riela]

> I mean that the server I want to relay to requires
> authentication. (I could work around this, but It would be
> easier for me to maintain if I could have my mta
> authenticate.  There are a couple of patches for qmail that
> do this.  And the documentation seems very clear, I would
> like to know what the alternatives are.

You could use qmail without smtp auth patch, but with pop3-before-smtp.
Without patches.
Simply use ucspi-ssl and create a qmail-pop3s like qmail-pop3d. If you have
vpopmail, create two vchkpw binaries, for qmail-pop3d without
--enable-roaming-users, for qmail-pop3s with.

Regards
Andrea