From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 14:22:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8EE937B651 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:22:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA15989; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:22:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:22:13 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: David Banning Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail server question Message-ID: <20000622162213.A14670@dan.emsphone.com> References: <395262EF.736E90F8@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.4i In-Reply-To: <395262EF.736E90F8@yahoo.com>; from "David Banning" on Thu Jun 22 15:03:11 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 22), David Banning said: > I am having hit-and-miss mail problems that are hard to pin down. > > Question; how does sendmail know your password to send to smtp mail > servers? Smtp mail servers don't use passwords (unless you're using SMTP AUTH, which isn't widely used) > When I use netscape sometimes a little box pops up asking for the > password; That's for pulling mail from a pop or imap server; a completely different program than sendmail. > But their is no place in the sendmail.cf file to put a password - for > when I just use mail, pine, mutt, etc. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message