Re: [Nolug] Using ssmtp to feed emails to my ISP

On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 15:03 -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> > Here is the description of "Internet site with smarthost":
> [...]
> > That sounds like what I want to do, and I do use fetchmail.
>
> That is what you want. "smarthost" is a sendmail term (at least,
> that's where I first heard it) that describes the cox smtp relay.

After I reconfigured postfix, when I was setting my MUA to use
"sendmail" instead, it occurred to me, "how will smtp.east.cox.net
know that it's ron.l.johnson, and not me@haggis that's sending the
email?"

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