[NTLUG:Discuss] Comcast outbound email server

[. Daniel]

Does postfix do SMTP AUTH?

>I echo Jay's comments about moving over to postfix.  Adding a new
>forwarding record with post fix involves something like the following:
>
>echo 'somedomain.com smtp:smtp.comcast.net:25' > /etc/postfix/transport
>echo '.somedomain.com smtp:smtp.comcast.net:25' > /etc/postfix/transport
>sudo /usr/local/sbin/postmap /etc/postfix/transport
>sudo /usr/local/sbin/postfix reload
>
>Easily scripted, you just add domains as needed.
>
>BTW, speaking of Comcast:  As of a few days ago, you can no longer
>send mail to another comcast account without going through the
>smtp.comcast.net gateway (IOW, the servers pointed to by Comcast's MX
>records won't accept connections from Comcast-allocated IPs).  Which
>means you'll need to add comcast.net to your transport file if you go
>with postfix!
>
>   --Brian
>
>On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:09:23AM -0600, Jay Urish wrote:
> > . Daniel wrote:
> > > I am a really stupid person sometimes.  Just wanted to say that
> > > first-thing so that no one else needs to remind me.  Sendmail config
> > > files make me dizzy to look at them.  But let me state what I want to
> > > happen and then I will hope that someone else here is already doing 
that
> > > and is willing to tell me how.
> > >
> > > 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.  Sendmail, as I mentioned before, invariably results in
> > > dizziness and nausea.  (Doctors have recommended discontinuing use, 
but
> > > I have found other MTAs confusing to get set up... Sendmail, 
basically,
> > > just works... basically.)
> > >
> > > So I'm hoping someone else has conquered this problem and wouldn't 
mind
> > > sharing with me?
> > >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > >
> > >
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