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Title: outbound smtp requires auth
Post by: Blakeh on April 23, 2001, 04:42:12 AM

How does e-smith server handle outbound smtp if the isp's smtp server requires authentication?  In the manager screen, there is only a space for the isp's smtp server name, nothing else.  Any one dealt with this before?

bh

Title: Re: outbound smtp requires auth
Post by: zac on April 23, 2001, 07:39:52 AM

hmm,

if i remember all my mail protocol stuff properly, your local e-smith smtp server doesn't ever contact your isp's smtp server, and thus doesn't need to log in or provide authentication n' stuff. the e-smith qmail daemon acts as a full smtp server and thus sends mail of it's own accord. why, are you not able to send mail to outside networks?

zac

Title: Re: outbound smtp requires auth
Post by: Blakeh on April 23, 2001, 09:42:47 AM

We are using a residential cable-modem connection and thus need to route mail through our isp's smtp server.  It's Cox Roadrunner and it requires the account username and password to establish a connection.