On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 11:12:07AM -0400 or thereabouts, Jim Lynch wrote: > I'm trying to get mail working through my isp and have a basic problem. My > isp, bellsouth, requires a username and password to permit mail being > relayed through them. Firefox and Mozilla have sections in the SMTP server > options to put that. However I cannot find where I need to place them when > using the "mail" command line program. I am running postfix and see > usernames and passwords mentioned in the documentation, but it looks like > that's for using this system as a server not a place for me to store mine > for use by the bs server. No that's wrong. 8) > Can anyone please enlighten me? Running a very recent install of Sarge. Set up the MTA to do the work (Postfix will do this for you via SMARTHOST options). Then 'mail', and other CLI e-mail apps <ie> mutt would use Postfix for sending outbound, heck I even have TBird using my MTA on my Debian Box to my SMARTHOST. You'll have to search debian-user for help in configuring Postfix to do this, I use Exim4 myself. -- Steve <http://sweetpig.dyndns.org:1000/> ----------------------------------------------- Sunday Aug 28 2005 07:35:02 PM EDT ----------------------------------------------- Water, taken in moderation cannot hurt anybody. -- Mark Twain
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