On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 19:25 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Set up dovecot - > > fetchmail --> procmail --> Maildir > > I can't use it for smtp because a lot of mail hosts (rightly so, to > fight spam) will not accept my mail unless I use my ISP smtp server. > > Eudora - after telling it to accept the certificate can read mail. Can > not send - my smtp requires a password, which happens to be different > than the password I am using on the dovecot box. No way I can find to > specify that password to Eudora. > > Evolution - can read the mail just fine, but seems to have same problem > as Eudora, it seems to assume the check password is same as smtp > password. > > Balsa, my client of choice - does allow different password for checking > and sending, but it seems unable to check my mail (balsa 2.2.5) - I > suspect because of the ssl certificate on the dovecot box. > > I *really* don't want to use the same password on the dovecot box that > I use with my pop account, I am forwarding logs and other info to the > dovecot imap server so I can read them from wherever, and my smtp > password is the same as what fetchmail uses to pop the account, so if > they sniff that and its the same as what I use to log into the imap > server, sensitive info could be read. > > Any way to make evolution use a different password for smtp > authentication? Any way to tell balsa the ssl certificate is OK? Curious. I wouldn't know how to configure it so that it *didn't* require you to enter the passwords separately. In the current FC3 version of Evolution (2.0.4), in the account configuration setup, the POP/IMAP configuration is set in the "Receiving Mail" tab, and the SMTP configuration is set in the "Sending Mail" tab. Completely separate? > As far as Eudora goes, I'll look for another windows mail client if I > can't find a solution for that (on a different resource) Last time I tried Eudora was 5.2.1.1 (beta) and there was no way to use different SMTP & POP passwords there. No idea if things have improved since then. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
