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Re: [PLUG] verizon dsl send mail
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Rebecca Ore wrote:
On Wednesday, June 23, 2004, at 12:57 PM, Stephen Gran wrote:
You need to use the same username/password pair that you use for
fetchmail, presumably, and what you want to find out is the name of the
outgoing mail server. I assume this is something like mail.verizon.net
or smtp.verizon.net, as that's a fairly standard set up. Both exim3 and
exim4 support client side smtp auth.
It's outgoing.verizon.net. I was using sendmail and had the
authentication set up for that (and still have my sendmail how-to from
the sendmail maintainer). Verizon does auth in plain text (I'm now
using Mac OS 10.2.8 Mail program which has a hand-off routine built in).
You want to a line for sending username and password -- and you may
need to have Cyrus SASL enabled (had postfix running earlier with the
help of person knowledgeable about postfix.
There is also a small mail hand-off program (smtpp or something like
that) which will do the same thing.
I'm confused as to why this has to be so complicated -- and consequently
problem plagued. I was always under the impression that a local MTA,
like sendmail or postfix (or exim) was an *alternative* to using your
ISP's SMTP server. I have never tried to use both concurrently. My
sendmail configuration knows nothing about the ISP's SMTP server, and I
bypass sendmail when I use the server (which is my default setup). Why
bother with a local MTA if you are using the ISP's server for outgoing mail?
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