On Sun, 16 May 2010 20:52:54 +0100 Frank Shute <boysh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > My ISP suddenly started bouncing my mail. > > I phoned them up and they started saying "In profiles do...". I > pointed out at that point that I used > Unix and the tech took fright & said that he'd get somebody to ring me > back; nobody ever did. Maybe you should have listened to what he had to say; it's trivial to extrapolate the necessities once you know the windoze setup. > > I assume that they've added some sort of authentication scheme on > their mail server in addition > to IP based. Beforehand I could push mail to their server without any > special setup. > > They run Sendmail on Linux IIRC. > > I tried setting up cyrus-sasl with my Postfix running on FreeBSD-8-STABLE. > > This is what I did: > > added the lines: > > smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes > smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd I also have: smtp_sasl_security_options = > > to main.cf > > put this in /usr/local/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd > > [mail.zetnet.co.uk] esperance.zetnet.co.uk:XXXXX > > since I've got a pop3 email address of: fr...@. I would have expected the login to be fr...@esperance.zetnet.co.uk not just esperance.zetnet.co.uk However, you really need to ask your ISP what mechanism they are using. [snip] -- John
