Well, now you have me more confused. Okay, here's what I have and what I
am trying to do. I have a stand-alone PC, it's not a server for
anything. I use an external modem to dial in to my ISP, www.vei.net. The
mail server is mail.vei.net. Now, of course to connect to the 'net I
have to dial-up and "log in" using my ID and password. Then I am
"connected" to the internet. Then, to read/download my email I have to
"log in" to the mail server using another ID/password connection. Fine
so far. Now, if I want to SEND an email nessage, ny email program,
whatever it is, whatever you want to call it, upon clicking send, it
must AUTHENTICATE itself with the server before it will allow my program
to send the message. This is SMTP AUTH. That's all I am wanting Postfix
to do, just act like a simple email client MTA. My goal in all this is
to be able to use Mutt as my MUA. I already have Fetchmail set up to
fetch my mail. Procmail saet up to filter mail and Mutt set up to read
mail. I just can't get Postfix, or anything else to SEND mail. I have
been reading all of the docs I can find on Postfix/SMTP AUTH, but most
of them are server oriented. Please, anybody jump in here and help!

Cheers,
Jerry

On 02 May 2002 07:45:18 +0300
Iustin Pop <iustyags.ro> wrote:

> Well, let me jump in the discussion and backtrack a bit. The problem
> at hand is that you want to be able to send and receive emails. Right?
> For that you need 1) a mechanism to send emails, usually either
> sendmail interface (/usr/sbin/sendmail) or SMTP server and 2) a
> mechanism to receive emails, usually POP or IMAP. Do you have either
> 1) or 2) ? I understand that your ISP provides you with 1), so what
> about 2)?
>
> Regards,
> Iustin Pop
>
>
> On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 07:41, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
> > Well, I'm not sure. That would be nice if I knew how to do it. When
> > I am"net connected", like right now, no matter what email client
> > program I use, in either Linux or Winbroke, in order to send email I
> > have to set up SMTP AUTH in the mailer program. Right now I am using
> > Sylpheed, and I have to set up SMTP AUTH in it in order to send
> > mail. Now, I understand that sendmail/postfix/exim are double-duty
> > programs that can be configured as either clients or servers (is
> > that right?). But I thought a "server" was for receiving and
> > forwarding emails, such as an isp does. If there is a way to bypass
> > the ISP when sending email, then I want to know how to do it (with
> > postfix). And, if that is true, then what is SMTP AUTH for? I'm sure
> > by all of my ranting here you all can tell that I don't know much
> > about the subject. Please, anyone, jump in here and"straighten" me
> > out! I really am trying to learn, but good documentation on client
> > side SMTP AUTH is, well I can't find any.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jerry
> >
> > On Wed, 1 May 2002 13:01:34 +1000
> > "Brian Davis" <briandomainz.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > > Why do you need to relay via your ISP's MTA ??
> > >
> > > If you are running postfix, then when you are "net connected" let
> > > postfix send the emails directly, after all, it IS an MTA !!!
> > >
> > > Not need to auth anyone.. Or am I missing something?
> > >
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > >
>
>
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