Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:22:13 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: David Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail server question Message-ID: <20000622162213.A14670@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <395262EF.736E90F8@yahoo.com>; from "David Banning" on Thu Jun 22 15:03:11 GMT 2000 References: <395262EF.736E90F8@yahoo.com>
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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
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