> > Does anyone know offhand what settings I need to use to > > get Postfix to relay outgoing mail through Comcast's mail > > server?
You'll need to set postfix up to relay all mail through their smtp server. Glancing at some of my configs, you'll want something like: relayhost = their.smtp.server > > I believe Comcast requires authentication to use their > > outbound SMTP server, and I'm not sure how to do that with > > Postfix. I have no idea about comcast. You'll need a postfix patched with the sasl patch. The postfix-tls package in debian has that. If their using plain/login authentication for smtp, you probably will want tls as well. I use tls to authenticate my remote servers to my main mail server, so I haven't set up postfix to use smtp auth as a client. It shouldn't be to hard though. You'll just need smtp_auth_sasl yes and such. > 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. Well, smtp is the protocol that email is transported through. Postfix is a piece of software that can be (and almost always is) both a client and a server for that protocol. > 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). I have no idea about comcast as I don't have it. The continual spam problem is forcing more and more isps to block outbound smtp except to their own email servers and then those servers usually only accept email originating at their domain. I've even had one isp start blocking it without ever telling me they were going to do it. >>>------> -- +-------------+-----------------------+---------------+ | Ed Schaller | Dark Mist Networking | psuedoshroom | +-------------+-----------------------+---------------+
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