From: Will Yardley (no email)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 21:15:50 EDT
Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
> luna <> wrote:
> > well, if your only need is for postfix to provide outgoing mail
> > services, and it's gonna be on the same machine as mutt, you really
> > don't need smtp auth at all..
that's not really true -- his ISP requires it, and if he is on a dialup,
or link with a dynamic IP, he shouldn't really be sending mail out
directly through there.
> Then why does SMTP AUTH exist at all?
>
> I keep hearing this, but no instructions as to how to do it.
unfortunately i can't help you out with this part (setting postfix up as
a *client* for auth SMTP), although i doubt it's super hard. it would
be useful if someone would make documentation on how to do this.
with sendmail, you can place a username and password in
/etc/mail/default-auth-info, and i believe it will try to use this
information to authenticate. i'm sure that doing something similar
isn't difficult with postfix...
-- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . > - To unsubscribe, send mail to with content (not subject): unsubscribe postfix-users
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