On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Rich Shepard wrote:
I'm not a professional SysAdmin or network admin but have been running my own smtpd using cyrus-SASL for years. I want now to transition to using dovecot-SASL and have difficulty correctly configuring dovecot.
Found a web forum thread that seems to address the problem I'm having, and experimentation here appears to confirm it. When Frontier Communications purchased Verizon's land line business they installed routers out here incompatible with my having a static IP address via my local ISP. Now, outbound mail has to be relayed through the ISP's postfix server (and Frontier changes my dynamic IP address several times every evening and night). The thread I read said that dovecot does not work with smtp when outbound messages are relayed and authenticated through another server. Is this correct? If so, it looks like I need to stay with cyrus-sasl for both smtp and smtpd. Rich
