Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:21:36 -0800 From: "Erin" <kahn@deadbbs.com> To: "'Michael D. Harlan'" <r3mdh@rworld.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: SMTP Server / Pop-Authentication Message-ID: <000701c06ab1$b0cc2b60$4114be0a@sdccd.cc.ca.us> In-Reply-To: <20001220101141.A84446@rworld.org>
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It sounds to me like they are doing POP before SMTP auth. If this is the case, you would need to login into your pop account before being able to send any email via the SMTP server. This means that you will not be able to use them as a general relay from your system. Someone may have made a script somewhere to get around such things, but I do not have it. HTH Erin mailto:kahn@deadbbs.com http://www.deadbbs.com http://www.fortenberry.net "It takes a million monkeys at typewriters to write Shakespeare, but only a dozen monkeys at computers to run Network Solutions." -- Patrick Delahanty > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Michael D. > Harlan > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 10:12 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: SMTP Server / Pop-Authentication > > > Hi All, > > I'm embarassed to be writing to this list today. Perhaps the flu has > impeded my ability to figure this out on my own... > > I'm using mutt as my e-mail client. mutt-1.2.5 to be exact. > I'm have a > cable modem connection to my ISP, where my POP e-mail box > resides. They > have 2 servers to process mail, 1 for pop (incoming) mail and > 1 for SMTP > (outgoing) mail. I'm using fetchmail to get my mail from the ISP. No > problems there. However, I'm having some problems sending > mail through > the SMTP server. > > Am I correct in thinking that I should edit the > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file > to read: > > # "Smart" relay host (may be null) > DSsmtp.mail.myisp.com > > where 'smtp.mail.myisp.com' is the hostname of the SMTP server? I did > this and when I sent out a test e-mail, I got the response: > > Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 521 Mail not accepted from this domain: 521 > myisp.com closing transmission channel. You must be pop-authenticated > before you can use this smtp server, and you must use your > mail address > for the Sender/From field. > > I'm not very savvy with sendmail configuration. At least not > yet. Can > anyone point me in the right direction on how to tell sendmail what my > userid and password are for the SMTP server? Or is there an > easier way to > do this? (I have a tendancy to take the path of MOST resistance :) ) > > I TRULY appreciate any help that you can provide. > > Sincerely, > Mike Harlan > r3mdh@rworld.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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