Re: SMTP password
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have a problem: my ISP ask me for username and password to send e-mail
> > by smtp. With Netscape is easy to configure it, but I don't know how to
> > do that with smail or sendmail. Can somebody help me?
> >
> the problem is: smtp has NO password at all (AFAIK). the point is, you
> have to do "POP before SMTP" to authorize yourself, which netscape does
> normally.
This is not true. SMTP can have the AUTH extension to allow user/password
authentication. This mechanism is used by many ISPs and is implemented in mail SMTP
servers (including recent sendmail versions).
>
> when using an mta (e.g. sendmail) you have to do a "fetchmail" before
> sending any e-mail. on one box i configured i simply put a "fetchmail"
> in the ppp-up script, that is, fetchmail is called directly after dialing
> in. a problem arises, if you stay on-line that long, that your
> authorization times out - then you would have to "fetchmail" before
> sending e-mail again. but i thing it is a good idea to run fetchmail as a
> daemon as long as you are on-line, so it checks for mail and holds your
> smpt-authorization open every, say 10, minutes.
>
> in short:
> put a "fetchmail -d 600" in your /etc/ppp/ppp-up
> put a "fetchmail --quit" in your /etc/ppp/ppp-down
> (i'm not sure if the files are in /etc/ppp/ on debian, as i set up a suse
> box.)
>
> > P.S. Sorry, terrible English.
> not that bad - at least not worse than mine :-)
>
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