On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:38:28PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:24:54PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Still posting from iceape. > > No, now posting from mutt
Great! > > > > > > I removed the server line; it was clearly a mistake. I don't > > > remember entering such a line. I believe it was automatically > > > generated or picked up from some previous configuration. > > > > You mean the 'mydestination'. I think this is required to get local > > mail working. Here is mine: > > > > mydestination = myhostname.homenet, localhost.homenet, localhost > > Found I must leave out myhostname.homenet or mail sent from mutt to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] never leaves the LAN but is posted directly to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], fetched by fetchmail and read by mutt. Hhmm, I'm not an expert, but I think as long as you take out tomgeorge.info it should work. As I understand it postfix will deliver locally any mails addressed to some_user@<entry>. Otherwise it will use the smarthost/relayhost. > On the other hand the localhost entries are necessary. If missing mutt > never sees the messages fetched by fetchmail, they are left in a queue > somewhere. You have fetchmail set to deliver via SMTP ... > > That means that any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > has to be delivered locally (as opposed to relaying it through the > > smarthost). > > > . > . > . > > > > * I think you need the package libsasl2-modules (in etch it's only a > > recommends but in unstable it's a depends of postfix) > > I installed this package with no immediate effect This is used for the authentication. > > * in /etc/postfix/main.cf > > > > Next I used vi to insert the following lines in /etc/postfix/main.cf > > > smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes > > smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd > > smtp_sasl_type = cyrus > > smtp_sasl_security_options = > > > > (Yes I know, the last option is left empty, but there was a bug, not > > sure if it's fixed ... maybe I should try) > > > > * then you need to create a file /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd with something > > like: > > > > [mail.server.com] user:password > > > > (the square brackets are not mandatory, but might prevent some problems) > > > > I created this file but in /etc/postfix/sasl/ as somewhere there is a > note that this is the Debian way. Any reference please? (I'm keen on having everything The Debian Way) > With the brackets in fails, without them it works. That's beyond my knowledge. The important thing is that it works ;) If you're curious you'll have to read on MX queries (if I recall correctly) > Thanks for your help Andrei, without it I might never have figured this > out. I hope I have explained it simply now - Tom George I totally forgot I already had all this (and more) written at http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Mail_-_sending If you have the spare time you could check that to see if everything is ok (especially as English is not my first language). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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