I'm trying to send mail through my ISP using sendmail (postfix under the covers). I have to use sendmail because the actual application is the PHP5 "mail" command, and that command uses sendmail. My ISP requires a username and password to accept the relay; this protocol goes under the name of SMTP AUTH.
Using kmail, I have no trouble sending mail. In fact, using the Linux mail command I have no trouble either, thought the (ISP smtp URL,username, password) triplet must be specified in ~/.mailrc. I've gotten a procedure for providing the triplet to sendmail, but my test messages never arrive. According to the docs I've looked at, I need to put a line like this in the file /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd: smtp.comcast.net theuser:xxx I then need to hash that file to create another file, /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db, using the "postmap" program. Finally, I need to insert these lines in the main.cf file that provides postfix with its configuration: smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options = The configuration file seems to be located in the directory /etc/postfix. I then need to reload postfix with the command postfix reload I've done all that and I get no error messages -- but no mail arrives when I issue the command sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] this is a test message . How can I track down the reason the mail isn't arriving? Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
