Customers of Sympatico‘s high-speed Internet service receive instructions on how to set up their email; however, these settings are aimed at people using Outlook, Netscape, or Eudora. What I needed were instructions on how to configure my local SMTP server, Postfix, with Sympatico. Of course, that information is not available. This document details how I figured out the settings required to make smtphm.sympatico.ca happy.
Installation
You need a version of Postfix built with TLS and SASL support enabled. If your distribution doesn’t come with it pre-built follow the instructions at:
On my Debian unstable system I simply did:
apt-get install postfix libsasl2-modules
Configuration
I’m assuming that your Postfix configuration directory is /etc/postfix. Adjust appropriately to accommodate your system.
To use SASL we need a password file containing our user name and password for the server we are connecting to. Per Sympatico’s instructions the server is smtphm.sympatico.ca.
cd /etc/postfix mkdir sasl && cd sasl echo "[smtphm.sympatico.ca] USERNAME@symaptico.ca:PASSWORD" > passwd postmap hash:passwd
The above creates the password file and the hash-based database file that Postfix uses. Of course replace USERNAME with your Symaptico user name, and PASSWORD with your password (the email password, not the b1 password to access the Internet.)
Make sure in your main.cf you have configured your relayhost as: relayhost = [smtphm.sympatico.ca]
Finally, add the following lines to your main.cf file:
# Enable TLS/SASL for the smtphm.sympatico.ca server smtp_use_tls = yes smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl/passwd smtp_sasl_security_options =
Restart Postfix and send a test message. If all went well you should see the successful sending of the message in the Postfix log file.
Good luck!
