Jonathan wrote:
Hi All,
I have quite a neat system set up with my email. Fetchmail downloads it via
POP3 from ISP (evil telstra). Dovcote Imap along with squirrelmail allow me
to access my email (nicely filtered and sorted) over the net.
Problem:
I can't send email using this system. I have to use a work around from KMail
(set up like I had it before all this, just simple POP3 client). This means I
can't send emails from my computer over the net. I think port 25 is blocked,
so It needs to take the email (which does appear in the sent folder) and then
pump it up to the ISP with SMTP. Seems to be plenty of people saying that is
what needs to happen, but no one who is willing to explain how that actually
works, with any recent setup.
Solution 1
Setup your mail client to use your ISP for outgoing mail. I hobbled
along with that solution for ages, but from my reading of the above,
you've tried it and it didn't work.
Solution 2
I'm using Postfix for outgoing mail, which for a long time I was using
for intraoffice mail before setting up Postfix to send outgoing mail.
I don't know enough to know whether this is likely to work if you've
never had the first solution working.
Here are my notes for how I got Postfix to send mail externally.
1. Tried to send some mail; didn't work.
2. Checked /var/log/mail.log and found an error message that mentioned
something about not being able to find "/etc/postfix/sasl_password.db"
3. Googled for the path mentioned in the error message, and found the
answer I needed somewhere on this page:
http://www.hypexr.org/linux_mail_server.php
Adelle.
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