Am Dienstag, 14. Januar 2003 03:28 schrieb Bill Witherspoon: > Hi all, > I'm trying to set up the following: > 1) fetchmail getting my POP mail from my ISP. > 2) Using procmail to filter, and deliver into my local mailbox. > 3) Using Mutt to read it.... > > but I'll be darned if I can send mail. I think the word I'm looking > for is 'relay' (please correct me). I need to authenticate to my ISP
no, relay is to forward (relay) a mail from a host outside your network to another host outside your network. All hosts inside your network usualy does not need to relay. > (sasl?). I've tried looking at postfix & sendmail but all the docs are > setup for server type applications. I have no need to send mail either > locally or to remote machines. I *just* need to relay to my ISP ;-) > > Do I really need full blown sendmail just to give mail to my ISP? > Any help would be appreciated. (course both sylpheed & kmail can do it!) > No, you don't need a full mta. especialy not with smtp auth and all its trapdoors. KMail (for example) can do smtp auth by itself (I think mutt can do it, too). But, If your host runs longer than a couple of hours (lets say 24hours a day) It is far better to have a mta running (at least in the default configuration). Every failure in a cronjob is reported by mail. And some msec reports too. So you don't get this information if you don't have a mta running. Martin > > Bill -- ------------------------------------------------------------ H E L I X Gesellschaft f�r Software & Engineering mbH ------------------------------------------------------------ Hanauer Landstrasse 52 Telefon (069) 4789 35-30 60314 Frankfurt am Main Telefax (069) 4789 35-44 ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.helix-gmbh.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------
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