e-mail general clarification (courier-imap, postfix)

Harold · n00b Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 19

If I understood correctly postfix is the service that gets the mail and also sends it? While courier-imap makes my mail accessible to me via imap.

I use getmail for getting my mail from pop accounts and it places it in maildirs (so far so good, now I found out it needs cur, new and tmp dirs to be considered a maildir

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My question is can I let my setup deliver e-mail? I need it to use smtp over my isps smtp server (just like a mailprogram I run locally) since they block smtp servers, so I can't run my own.

Frankly this e-mail set-up is still very new to me and I could use some more info that goes beyong MTA, MTU and other lovely acronyms

Any pointers will be appreciated.

Thank You.

Harold

mglauche · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 8:21 am Post subject:

the easiest solution for you would be ssmtp, it is a *very* simple postfix style program, that can deliver all your non-local mail to a "smart-host" at your ISP. for local delivery it would either just dump it into /var/spool/mail/<username> or deliver it to cyrus/courier/uw ...

That "smart-host" is just the SMTP relay at your ISP, which is usually the send mail setting for normal programms ...

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