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Re: How to authenticate with different accounts to same smtp server depending on sender id

From: Patrick Ben Koetter (pstate-of-mind.de)
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 11:02:00 CST


* Rainer Stengele <rainerdiplan.de> [031103 17:48]:
> I have the same smtp server (provider) for different independent
> accounts (mailboxes). Wanting to authenticate myself to the server I
> think I have to use SASL and
>
> ...
> /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd:
> smtp.provider.de username:password
> bar.com username
> ...
>
> Am I wrong?

Yupp, you're wrong. You're looking at Postfix client side
authentication, but you need Postfix server side authentication.

> Now I don't see how I can use different username:password combinations
> to authenticate to the same server depending on the sender id I am
> sending email from one of my clients.
>
> Did I miss something?

Read:
<http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/benefits.html>
to clarify how you can use SMTP AUTH.

HTH

prick

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Patrick Koetter <pstate-of-mind.de>
http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/