rea...@newsguy.com:
> Single user home machine on home lan.
> No real domain (my ISP is comcast but does not offer Static IP for its
> users .. or any kind of personal domain name)
/etc/postfix/main.cf:
myhostname = localhost.localdomain
myorigin = localhost.localdomain
See http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html
> I want to be able to pull mail from various pop3 and imap accounts.
> Probably with fetchmail (I've used for many years)
> AND be able to send mail out thru a smarthost, also done for many
> years but it is becoming increasingly difficult to setup.
There must be lots of writeups for fetchmail doing this.
> Smarthost is probabably smtp.newsguy.com. That is what I've been
> using for some time, and I have a very old account with them for
> pop3.
/etc/postfix/main.cf:
# Include the [] to suppress MS lookups.
relayhost = [smtp.newsguy.com]
> With sendmail:
> I used the smarthost method by masquerading as newsguy.
See http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html#fantasy
This has examples to map user@localhost.localdomain to your ISP account.
Wietse
