Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I have a problem: my ISP ask me for username and password to send e-mail > > by smtp. With Netscape is easy to configure it, but I don't know how to > > do that with smail or sendmail. Can somebody help me? > > > the problem is: smtp has NO password at all (AFAIK). the point is, you > have to do "POP before SMTP" to authorize yourself, which netscape does > normally.
This is not true. SMTP can have the AUTH extension to allow user/password authentication. This mechanism is used by many ISPs and is implemented in mail SMTP servers (including recent sendmail versions). > > when using an mta (e.g. sendmail) you have to do a "fetchmail" before > sending any e-mail. on one box i configured i simply put a "fetchmail" > in the ppp-up script, that is, fetchmail is called directly after dialing > in. a problem arises, if you stay on-line that long, that your > authorization times out - then you would have to "fetchmail" before > sending e-mail again. but i thing it is a good idea to run fetchmail as a > daemon as long as you are on-line, so it checks for mail and holds your > smpt-authorization open every, say 10, minutes. > > in short: > put a "fetchmail -d 600" in your /etc/ppp/ppp-up > put a "fetchmail --quit" in your /etc/ppp/ppp-down > (i'm not sure if the files are in /etc/ppp/ on debian, as i set up a suse > box.) > > > P.S. Sorry, terrible English. > not that bad - at least not worse than mine :-) > > -- > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! > -- > Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]