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Re: Use another SMPT-Server for delivering mails

Victor.Duchovnimorganstanley.com
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 11:56:52 CDT


On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Nils Cibula wrote:

> Hi,
>
> first thing I want to say is that I'm from germany. So please don't care about my bad english!
>
> I am using postfix on a Mandrake 9.1 LinuxPC, whitch is connected to the internet with a DSL-Dialup flatrate. Every 24 h my ISP disconnects and my mashine reconect immedeatly. The mashine has an dynamic Hostname at dyndns.org.
>
> Further I uses fetchmail to pick up all my mails from various accounts. There is SqirrelMail installed on my system, so I can read all my mail using a single webclient. So far everithing works fine.
>
> The problem is to write mails. Some mailservers rejects mails from servers without an fix IP-Address. For exaple T-Online or AOL. Therefor I want to use an other SMPT-Server for delivering, e.g. smpt.web.de. A few days ago I've found an FAQ, that shows how to use another SMPT-Server, but now I don't find i again. And the second problem is how to authenticate to this Server.
>
> Can someone send me some hints? The best would be an HowTo in german, but I can't find one!
>

If relay is a hostname:

relayhost = [some.relay.host]

If relay is a set of MX records:

relayhost = some.mx.host

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