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Subject: Re: [SM-USERS] SMTP Authentication Configuration
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:23:30 +0000
From: Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a local server that receives my e-mail but want to use my ISP's
SMTP server to send mail. My ISP requires login authentication for it's
SMTP server with a different username/password from that on my local
server. Squirrelmail doesn't seem to provide any way to specify a
username/password combination for it's SMTP server configuration separate
from the login username/password. I am guessing that it tries to use the
login username/password for the SMTP server, which in my case, won't work.
Does anyone know if there is a way to specify a username/password for the
SMTP server that is different from that of the IMAP server?
Thanks,
Allen
normally ISP's smtp servers dont require authentication, at least none
that i have seen, bellsouth, comcast, or time warner's road runner, they
just require that you are on their network, which they can usually tell
by ip address. what i do is set my postfix and or courier (which is
what i use) to use the mail.comcast.net smtp address, squirrelmail is
just a front end for your mail server so it will use whatever you have
the server setup to use aka, using your ISPs smtp server. if your smtp
server requires authentication then your best bet would probably make
the clients use a mail client like outlook for windows or thunderbird
for linux, that way they have the option of specifing a user and pass to
authenticate with. even then it will not work if they are not on that
network, i.e. i tried sending mail through the road runner network FROM
my new comcast.net network and it wouldnt let me because i wasnt on
their network. so if these are remote or traveling dialup users then
they would have to use squirrelmail so they could send mail using the
smtp server you specified in your mail server configs. hope this wasnt
too confusing for you.
HTH
nick
HTH
nick
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