From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 16:17:05 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B9D216A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:17:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.utdallas.edu (smtp1.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 654D043D5C for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:17:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from utd49554 (utd49554.utdallas.edu [129.110.3.85]) by smtp1.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20AC2389494; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:17:05 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:17:05 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl To: gerard-seibert@rcn.com, Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <37B3AF603F27850132236332@utd49554.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050106065102.7B36.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com> References: <20050106052050.9236.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com> <20050106065102.7B36.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: Configuring POSTFIX to use mutiple email accounts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Schmehl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:17:05 -0000 --On Thursday, January 06, 2005 06:57:15 AM -0500 Gerard Seibert wrote: > > Therefore, if I have several email addresses that are through different > ISP's, don't I have to configure POSTFIX fir each of them? > No. You're confusing *reading* mail with *sending* mail. All Postfix does is send and receive mail. It has nothing to do with how you read your mail and there's nothing to configure with regard to how your ISP handles mail. What you do is configure Postfix so that it can send mail for you (and receive if that's possible, but you'd need a domain name for that.) Then you configure your email client (MUA) (Evolution, mutt, pine, mulberry, whatever) to get mail for each account by entering in to the POP or IMAP *incoming* server the name of the server that you fetch that mail from. When you configure the SMTP *outgoing* server, you configure it to go to Postfix (whatever you named it) and *it* will send the mail to whereever you told it to. If your ISP restricts port 25 so that you can't send mail directly, then configure Postfix to send all mail to your ISP's mail server. If you can provide *specific* information about each account (incoming and outgoing servers, *not* your username and password) and your ISP's server names as well as their policy about sending mail directly from your machine, then we can probably give you specific advise regarding the settings you need to have in Postfix. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu