From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Sat Jul 02 2005 - 12:30:26 CDT

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On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 12:07:07PM -0500, Chris wrote:

> On Friday 01 July 2005 11:08 pm, Victor Duchovni wrote:
>
> > http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html#delivering
> > http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html#resolve
> > http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html#transport
> > http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#client_sasl
> >
> > Most likely you want:
> >
> > main.cf:
> > relayhost = smtp:[smtpauth.earthlink.net]:587
> > smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/smtp_passwd
> >
> > smtp_passwd:
> > [smtpauth.earthlink.net]:587 yourusername:yourpassword
> >
> > But, why run Postfix at all in this case, if your smarthost is an ISP MSA,
> > you should be using your MUA to send mail directly to the ISP. Forcing
> > an MTA to use an MSA service as a relay is needless pain and suffering.
>
> Thanks Victor, postfix is used to send (forward)? spam reports fo NANAS and to
> various other abuse addresses that are generated by the script I run for
> these reports.
>

You don't need an MTA for this. See Bennett Todd's posts about recommended
minimal SMTP null-client replacements for Postfix.

--
        Viktor.

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