"Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info> wrote: > Still posting from iceape. > > I removed the server line; it was clearly a mistake. I don't > remember entering such a line. I believe it was automatically > generated or picked up from some previous configuration. You mean the 'mydestination'. I think this is required to get local mail working. Here is mine: mydestination = myhostname.homenet, localhost.homenet, localhost That means that any mail to user@myhostname.homenet or user@localhost has to be delivered locally (as opposed to relaying it through the smarthost). > I am attaching the last 20 lines of /var/log/mail/mail.log. They > show that if I use outgoing.verizon.net confirmation (the password > for our DSL account?) is required and if I use the ISP server > mail.tomgeorge.info the connection simply times out. I don't know why mail.tomgeorge.info is timing out (you could try telneting directly to it, wrong port, ...), but for authentication you need the following: * I think you need the package libsasl2-modules (in etch it's only a recommends but in unstable it's a depends of postfix) * in /etc/postfix/main.cf smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_type = cyrus smtp_sasl_security_options = (Yes I know, the last option is left empty, but there was a bug, not sure if it's fixed ... maybe I should try) * then you need to create a file /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd with something like: [mail.server.com] user:password (the square brackets are not mandatory, but might prevent some problems) * run 'postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd' and don't forget to chmod it 600 as you have the password in clear text. Restart postfix and try again. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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