[NTLUG:Discuss] Comcast outbound email server

[Eric Schnoebelen]

Jay Urish writes:
- . Daniel wrote:
- > I run my own personal domain at home.  I connect using Comcast.  I 
- > receive email just fine but if I were to send outbound email from my IP 
- > address, much of the time it is blocked in some way because I am 
- > operating from a residential IP address.  So I need to send to a server 
- > that isn't blocked.  My solution for now is to configure my client 
- > software to send to alternative outgoing email servers.  For now, I am 
- > using my domain registrar's outbound server which requires SMTP AUTH.  I 
- > can set that up on my clients just fine, but I'm lost in setting it up 
- > on sendmail.
- 
- 1st I think you should upgrade to postfix. Sendmail is beyond a pain to
- configure. If you do upgrade, look in main.cf when you are done for the
- smarthost config lines.. They are pretty well documented.

	I took a quick look at the postfix configuration and
documentation installed on my system (it runs sendmail, but
postfix is installed) and I couldn't, quickly, find any way to
configure postfix to be an SMTP AUTH client. Any pointers?

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