On Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:17:05 AM Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|>--On Thursday, January 06, 2005 06:57:15 AM -0500 Gerard Seibert |><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>> |>> Therefore, if I have several email addresses that are through different |>> ISP's, don't I have to configure POSTFIX fir each of them? |>> |>No. You're confusing *reading* mail with *sending* mail. All Postfix does |>is send and receive mail. It has nothing to do with how you read your mail |>and there's nothing to configure with regard to how your ISP handles mail. |> |>What you do is configure Postfix so that it can send mail for you (and |>receive if that's possible, but you'd need a domain name for that.) Then |>you configure your email client (MUA) (Evolution, mutt, pine, mulberry, |>whatever) to get mail for each account by entering in to the POP or IMAP |>*incoming* server the name of the server that you fetch that mail from. |>When you configure the SMTP *outgoing* server, you configure it to go to |>Postfix (whatever you named it) and *it* will send the mail to whereever |>you told it to. |> |>If your ISP restricts port 25 so that you can't send mail directly, then |>configure Postfix to send all mail to your ISP's mail server. |> |>If you can provide *specific* information about each account (incoming and |>outgoing servers, *not* your username and password) and your ISP's server |>names as well as their policy about sending mail directly from your |>machine, then we can probably give you specific advise regarding the |>settings you need to have in Postfix. |> |>Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) |>Adjunct Information Security Officer |>The University of Texas at Dallas |>AVIEN Founding Member |>http://www.utdallas.edu ********** Reply Separator ********** Thursday, January 06, 2005 2:04:34 PM My ISP does restrict port 25. So I guess what I really want to know is how do I configure POSTFIX to work under that condition. I do not know if this information is of any help to you, but these are the settings I am using at present in my email program. They are obviously for my ISP. I have a small home network, and am connect via a cable modem. I do not have a static address. I refuse to pay an additional $25 a month just for that. smtp.rcn.com (207.172.4.99) Port 25 pop.rcn.com (207.172.4.95) Port 110 domain name rcn.com (207.172.16.171) Primary DNS#1 ns1.dns.rcn.net (207.172.3.8) Secondary DNS#1 ns2.dns.rcn.net (207.172.3.9) Primary DNS#2 ns3.dns.rcn.net (207.172.3.10) Secondary DNS#2 ns4.dns.rcn.net (207.172.3.11) I hope that this is info is what you were referring to. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
