Configuring POSTFIX to use mutiple email accounts

[Gerard Seibert]

On Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:17:05 AM Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:

|>--On Thursday, January 06, 2005 06:57:15 AM -0500 Gerard Seibert 
|><gerard-seibert at rcn.com> 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 at utdallas.edu)
|>Adjunct Information Security Officer
|>The University of Texas at Dallas
|>AVIEN Founding Member
|>http://www.utdallas.edu


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Thursday, January 06, 2005 2:04:34 PM

My ISP does restrict port 25. So I guess what I really want to know is
how do I configure POSTFIX to work under that condition.

I do not know if this information is of any help to you, but these are
the settings I am using at present in my email program. They are
obviously for my ISP. I have a small home network, and am connect via a
cable modem. I do not have a static address. I refuse to pay an
additional $25 a month just for that.

smtp.rcn.com	(207.172.4.99)	Port 25
pop.rcn.com	(207.172.4.95)	Port 110
domain name	rcn.com	(207.172.16.171)
Primary DNS#1		ns1.dns.rcn.net	(207.172.3.8)
Secondary DNS#1	ns2.dns.rcn.net	(207.172.3.9)
Primary DNS#2		ns3.dns.rcn.net	(207.172.3.10)
Secondary DNS#2	ns4.dns.rcn.net	(207.172.3.11)

I hope that this is info is what you were referring to.