ethericalzen at gmail.com schrieb: > I've googled around and although I get a lot of hits about postfix > smarthost authentication with ssl, I can not find out how to > actually accomplish the task. > > I've read through smatterings of postings from Neophasis and the > like searching for just the syntax and what file (I assume it's > main.cf) I should be using; however, any smtpd_ lines I have tried > result in postfix hanging and refusing to deliver mail. smtpd_* is the wrong configuration option. It applies to Postfix acting as server, while you want to configure Postfix being the client. So you have to read through man 5 postconf for smtp_ (smtp_tls_*) options. > I could simply cease using smarthost, but my ip address is dynamic > (yes I know stop yelling at me I'm poor right now) so mail bounces > to some domains if I don't use smarthost. > > The server I'm running postfix on is CentOS 4 (fully updated). > Postfix version is 2.2.10-1.1.el4 (from rpm -qa). I have not had > sufficient downtime to upgrade to CentOS 5. Should I do that? > > Sincerely For what a howto when you can read the manpage for postconf? Even each smarthost can be configured with different musts, so there can't be a globally valid setup guide. Alexander