--- Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 21:03, Gary Thornock wrote: >> Does anyone know offhand what settings I need to use to >> get Postfix to relay outgoing mail through Comcast's mail >> server? >> >> I believe Comcast requires authentication to use their >> outbound SMTP server, and I'm not sure how to do that >> with Postfix. > > I thought that using postfix and smtp were kind of two > different choices. You either do one or the other. At > least they are two different choices in evolution. > > I've got comcast up here in WA and it seems like I was > able to use postfix (default mandrake setup) without any > special tricks. I haven't tried in a few months though, I > use smtp (though not comcast's).
Postfix and /sendmail/ are two different choices, but SMTP is the underlying protocol used by both. As for Comcast, smtp.comcast.net (at least, here in Provo) requires authentication -- or, at least, Mozilla keeps asking me for a password when I send mail through that server. I'm mainly looking to relay my outbound mail through the Comcast server because I have a few family members whose ISPs classify all mail sent by servers on home IP addresses as spam and never deliver it. I rather prefer for my emails to get where I intended to send them... - Gary ===== PGP Key ID: 071B173D Fingerprint: ED30 B048 6833 56B4 28C0 CE52 F12B 884A 071B 173D __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
