Postifx as SMTP AUTH client

David Cary Hart Fedora at TQMcube.com
Mon Apr 10 19:04:03 UTC 2006


On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:59:06 -0500
"J. K. Cliburn" <jcliburn at gmail.com> opined:
> I'm pretty new to configuring mail servers, and I'm running into
> issues trying to get outbound mail to work.  I've configured Postfix
> to (I think) request smtp auth at my ISP's mail server in an attempt
> to get him to relay my mail, but I'm not sure the authentication
> attempt is happening.
> 
> A few background items...
> 1) PPPoE DSL connection, dynamic IP.
> 2) DynDNS/ddclient correctly working to keep domain name and IP
> address in sync.
> 3) Postfix on home LAN server correctly configured to send and
> receive internal mail.
> 
No offense but you should NOT be sending mail direct-to-mx from a
dynamic IPA. Many servers won't accept it anyway.

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