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

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 09:22 -0500, Scott Harney wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > 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?"
> >
>
> smtp.east.cox.net doesn't care about your username. As far as I know,
> Cox doesn't use SMTP AUTH for customer relay. As long as it's coming
> from a cox-owned, cable-modem attached CPE IP address, smtp.east.cox.net
> will relay you. If you're talking about setting your From line, that's
> stricly an MUA function and is not important for sending mail out.

Oh, so that's what this is for...

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