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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 22:39:54 -0400
From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
To: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net>
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David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> wrote:

> I am running postfix on freebsd 7.0 using a dynamic IP address and am 
> getting requests to turn on smtp authentication for outgoing mails to 
> reach servers such as yahoo.com but do not know how to do it.

This is a little unclear.  Who is making these requests?  And what do 
your logs currently show when you try to send email destined for 
yahoo.com?  You might also want to take this discussion to the 
postfix-users mailing list.  But in general, for help with SASL in 
Postfix, see:

http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html

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Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>