> Hello! > > I have a problem: my ISP ask me for username and password to send e-mail > by smtp. With Netscape is easy to configure it, but I don't know how to > do that with smail or sendmail. Can somebody help me? > the problem is: smtp has NO password at all (AFAIK). the point is, you have to do "POP before SMTP" to authorize yourself, which netscape does normally. when using an mta (e.g. sendmail) you have to do a "fetchmail" before sending any e-mail. on one box i configured i simply put a "fetchmail" in the ppp-up script, that is, fetchmail is called directly after dialing in. a problem arises, if you stay on-line that long, that your authorization times out - then you would have to "fetchmail" before sending e-mail again. but i thing it is a good idea to run fetchmail as a daemon as long as you are on-line, so it checks for mail and holds your smpt-authorization open every, say 10, minutes.
in short: put a "fetchmail -d 600" in your /etc/ppp/ppp-up put a "fetchmail --quit" in your /etc/ppp/ppp-down (i'm not sure if the files are in /etc/ppp/ on debian, as i set up a suse box.) > P.S. Sorry, terrible English. not that bad - at least not worse than mine :-) -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.