Hello,
I am able to send mail outside from my home computer,
now. The problem was very silly, actually:
I had just set up kmail to use my ISP smtp server, but
calling it [EMAIL PROTECTED], rather than smtp.my_isp.com.
Fixed that, everything was fine, except my embarassment..
Many thanks to Peter Hermann's and Tom Berger for their
useful explanations. Anyway, I found that I could not try
any of their suggestion, because they rely on the cf.m4
file/package/RPM which I can't find anywhere on my system.
Is it a separate RPM I should install? Which one, exactly?
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Now, a new question:
I have two mail accounts on that ISP (private and office)
which I would like to keep completely independent, i.e.:
use kmail/pine/mutt mainly offline, and
send/receive all their messages via a cron script.
Such a script should:
1) dial-up to my isp
2) use the ISP smtp server to send all office mail with
sender
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
3) use the ISP smtp server to send all home mail with
sender
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
4) Retrieve all mail for marco_personal, put it in personal
folder
5) Retrieve all mail for marco_office, put it in office
folder
6) disconnect
7) postprocess (i.e. filter out spam, divide messages in sub-folders..)
I'm only confused about steps 2/3: how do I talk to the same smtp
server, during the same connection,as two different users?
The only thing I can think of is to talk to the smtp server via
some of the MAIL Perl modules, where you can set each time user,
password, etc..: does it make sense, or am I missing something
really easy here?
Of course, real world examples are welcome..:-)
Thanks in advance,
Marco Fioretti
