Postfix and Unitywave: Need POP-before-SMTP

Rusty Carruth wrote:
>
> >
> > Pluggers,
> >
> > I've signed onto Unitywave's dialup.
> >
> > They require you to login to their POP server before sending SMTP mail.
> >
> > BUT NOWHERE is the answer to:
> >
> > * How do I set Postfix to login to SMTP before sending mail?
>
> (I think you meant 'login to POP' ;-)
>
> Isnt' there a pre-email script in postfix somewhere? At the very least,
> you might be able to hack postfix's sending process - remember postfix
> breaks everything up into small tasks, so it should be possible to
> hack something. (IN the old, positive (correct!) meaning of hack!)
>
> If you are not up to that, let me know and I'll see if I can figure out
> where to do it...
>
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why not just telnet to port 110 on the server login - via name and
password and then exit. Once you do this, it should be simple to write a
shell script to do this.

Craig