Kmail and SMTP authentication

[William Park]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:00:17PM -0400, Andrej Marjan wrote:
> bob wrote:
> >My dialup provider (Netrover) has recently switched to SMTP with 
> >authentication.
> >
> >I can't find the place to set this in my RedHat 7.2 version of Kmail 
> >(v1.3.1)
> >
> >Any suggestions other than upgrade?
> >
> >bob
> >  
> 
> Configure KMail to use your MTA to send mail, then configure your MTA to 
> authenticate with Netrover. As a bonus, all mail sending programs will 
> then work, not just KMail with its built-in SMTP function.
> 
> This is quite easy to do Postfix and Exim. I don't know anything about 
> Sendmail.

Equally easy for Sendmail, too. :-)

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