well, if your only need is for postfix to provide outgoing mail services,
and it's gonna be on the same machine as mutt, you really don't need smtp
auth at all..

when you are authenticating yourself to "the server"and sending mail,
vei.net's mail server (mail.vei.net) is taking your message and sending it
to the recipient's mail server.. however, you can remove one link from
the chain (in a sense)- install postfix on your server, set it up to only
listen on the loopback interface, change your mutt config to use localhost
as it's smtp server rather than mail.vei.net, and then your own computer
(e.g. postfix) will take your message, deliver it directly to the
recipient's mail server, without ever involving mail.vei.net (unless the
recipient's mail server just happens to be mail.vei.net. (how's that for a
run-on sentence?)

all of this can be done without the need for smtp auth, and imho, if your
needs are as basic as appears, setting up smtp auth would be way more
trouble than it's worth.

bim that in the above example, i'm asuming mutt is prompting you to
authenticate when mail is sent.

-ben

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

>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
>

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