Re: Postfix SASL SMTP AUTH help, please. [re-post from comp.mail.misc]

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:39:23 -0700, s. keeling wrote:

(...)

> Background:
> 
> I run fetchmail in a script wrapper called by my user crontab. Changing
> the interval at which the cronjob runs to 10 min. instead of every five
> minutes broke the implied "POP before SMTP" authorization. Apparently,
> my ISP's SMTP times out PbS authorization fairly quickly.
>
> I'd prefer to have SASL SMTP AUTH working instead of relying on PbS.

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So basically you want to setup Postfix to use SMTP AUTH (as "client") for 
sending e-mails through Postfix and then Postfix delivers the e-mail to 
your e-mail server provider, right?

First, check that remote e-mail server supports SMTP AUTH functionality 
(you can test this by setting up an account in any e-mail client and send 
a message from there, just ensure to put your login credentials when 
configuring the remote smtp server).

If that works, then review your Postfix logs. If the e-mail cannot be 
sent for whatever reason, you should have more information about the 
failure under "/var/log/mail*" files.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón