Re: How to send mail thru SMTP?

use the relayhost option in /etc/postfix.main.cf
"Cab" <cabyour_bollox@ukrm.org> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 23 May 2003 06:51:18 +0200, Claus Atzenbeck
> <claus.atzenbeck@freenet.de> bored us all completely to death with
> wittery prose along the lines of:
>
> <prolly snipped>
> >Deboo wrote on Freitag, 23. Mai 2003 06:13:
> >
> >> I am on a private IP from my ISP and directly using an MTA doesn't seem
> >> possible (or is it?),
> >
> >If your computer is connected to the internet directly, you could use
> >postfix directly as MTA as well.
> >
> >> so can I configure exim or postfix so that it
> >> relays all mail thru the SMTP server instead? Or is there any other way
> >> to do it?
> >
> >In /etc/postfix/main.cf set "relayhost = host.somewhere.com"
>
> Further on from that. How can I set up postfix so that it uses the
> ISP SMTP server to send emails for various domains and for others, it
> uses itself?
>
> I ask, as my ISP has asked AOL to block all email from what they see
> as ppp connections.
>
> Not that I have many friends using AOL addresses anyway... :-)
> --
> Cab :^)

Alan S. Daniel wrote:

> use the relayhost option in /etc/postfix.main.cf
> "Cab" <cabyour_bollox@ukrm.org> wrote in message
> news:vmhrcvkpbbnajtc80avrd5bu9bbr0iet19@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 23 May 2003 06:51:18 +0200, Claus Atzenbeck
>> <claus.atzenbeck@freenet.de> bored us all completely to death with
>> wittery prose along the lines of:
>>
>> <prolly snipped>
>> >Deboo wrote on Freitag, 23. Mai 2003 06:13:
>> >
>> >> I am on a private IP from my ISP and directly using an MTA doesn't
>> >> seem possible (or is it?),
>> >
>> >If your computer is connected to the internet directly, you could use
>> >postfix directly as MTA as well.
>> >
>> >> so can I configure exim or postfix so that it
>> >> relays all mail thru the SMTP server instead? Or is there any other
>> >> way to do it?
>> >
>> >In /etc/postfix/main.cf set "relayhost = host.somewhere.com"
>>
>> Further on from that. How can I set up postfix so that it uses the
>> ISP SMTP server to send emails for various domains and for others, it
>> uses itself?
>>
>> I ask, as my ISP has asked AOL to block all email from what they see
>> as ppp connections.
>>
>> Not that I have many friends using AOL addresses anyway... :-)
>> --
>> Cab :^


I have the same problem with AOL and Earthlink. They block my Comcast
addresses. They let my dial-up addresses though.
This prevent me from running mailman for my club. Lots of computer
illeterates that use AOL because the CD was in the mail.

I need to relay everyting throguh smptp.comacast.net and it is too much.
I only get replies from AOL that goes in circles. Their $5.50 and hour folks
put their standard text into their replies w/o even reading my complaint.
(This has nothing to do with technical setup of postfix. That works fine)
Tom