On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 11:12:07AM -0400, 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. > > Can anyone please enlighten me? Running a very recent install of Sarge. > Jim, I'm sorry to see that you are a BellSouth customer :-(. For Postfix, simply place into /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd (create it if not already there): outgoing.server.bellsouth.net me@bellsouth.net:mypassword Make *sure* that the file is mode 0600 or 0400 (i.e., only readable by root). Then, in /etc/postfix/main.cf add these lines: relayhost = [outgoing.server.bellsouth.net] smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd Then, as root, run: # postmap hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd # postfix reload HTH, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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