Postfix connection to local ISP

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wms : 21/02/02 10:49 AM : Incident created -   Hello, Local mail exchange works well. But for sending and receiving mail from my ISP i have a username and a password. How do I configure POSTFIX for sending and receiving mail from my local ISP? The dialup is done via crontab (/usr/sbin/sendmail -q) Thanks for help Wolfgang Murth
MandrakeSoft : 21/02/02 04:50 PM : Reply received -   Hello, Please look up this website for your help : http://www.postfix.org/docs.html Thank you for using MandrakeSoft Professional Services technical support. Unfortunately your question is currently not included in our list of free provided support. As a reminder, support is dedicated to operating system installation only, covering the topics shown below: One personnal computer (intel plateform and compatible) Operating system installation based on the CD-ROMs Questions related to hardware compatibility Mouse configuration X-Window with DrakX or XF86Setup One user account configuration (single machine) Printer configuration on the machine Boot loader configuration of a machine hosting another operating system Configuring a modem and dialing in to an Internet Service Provider (excepted Winmodems and USB modems) Configuring ISDN and dialing in to an Internet Service Provider We apologize for the inconvenience and invite you to ask your questions on many of the freely available resources MandrakeSoft provides to its users. Some of these are:-- Web: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/ http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/ Mailing Lists: [email protected] [email protected] Thanks very much. Best regards Mandrakesoft Support Team
Linegod_7611 : 01/03/02 02:29 PM : Reply received -   Postfix is not used for getting mail from your ISP, you want to get the 'fetchmail' RPM. ------- Note: If this answer resolves your problem, please remember to close this question.
leviramsey : 10/03/02 10:03 AM : Reply received -   Postfix can send mail through your ISP's SMTP server (I'll get to receiving later) by setting the relay parameters. To do this, edit /etc/postfix/main.cf. you'll want to edit the relayhost option. If you're using a Mandrake version of Postfix, this option is well documented (search for relayhost). Essentially, you want to end up with an (uncommented) line that reads like: relayhost = [your ISP's SMTP server] That's completed. Send a test message to a throwaway Yahoo or Hotmail account and examine the Received: headers. They should show that mail was sent from your computer to your ISP's SMTP server, maybe through some other relays, and to your throwaway account's mail server. You may want to edit the mydomain parameters and configure your MUA to report your ISP mail address in the From: line. Receiving mail from your ISP's servers isn't difficult. To do this, I recommend the Fetchmail program. A graphical configuration front-end exists, which allows you to configure your mail setup (POP vs. IMAP etc.). It's possible to configure, using scripts, Fetchmail to start whenever you dial up and stop whenever you disconnect. However, because I use a LAN connection, I do not know off the top of my head how to do this. You may want to look in the /usr/share/doc/ directory for the fetchmail documentation, which includes some sample scripts to automate various tasks. You can also check the Fetchmail web site at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail
wms : 04/04/02 08:35 AM : Incident closed -   Dear MandrakeSoft, This question is covered with the ProSuite Edition.

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