Sending Mail from Offsite
In order to send emails through our mailserver from the outside, user
must authenticate himself. Please see below to configure your mail
client accordingliy. This is NOT necessary when sending mail from campus.
Microsoft Outlook
For Microsoft Outlook select "E-mail Accounts..." from the "Tools" menu. Select "View or change existing e-mail accounts" on the next page and click on the "Next" button. Make sure that the RZG account is highlighted and click on the "Change" button. Clicking on the "More Settings..." button on this page should bring up an "Internet E-mail Settings" window with four tabs. The "Outgoing Server" tab should look like the following:
Make sure that the "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication" box is checked and a username and password is supplied if different from your incoming mail settings. Now go to the "Advanced" tab and make sure that the "Outgoing Server (SMTP):" port is set to 587, and that the SSL checkbox is checked as in the following figure. Click "OK" when you are done.
Mozilla Thunderbird
The Mozilla Thunderbird mail client supports both SMTPS (port 465) and STARTTLS (port 587).
Please select "Account settings" from the "Edit" menu. Select "Outgoing Server (SMTP)". Make sure that the RCF
account is highlighted and click on the "Edit"
button:
It is not necessary to check "Use name and password" if you have a user certificate signed by "CertIssuer:/C=DE/O=Max-Planck-Gesellschaft/CN=MPG CA/" and imported it into thunderbird.
Alternatively you can also use the SSL method:
Pine
To configure pine to use the authenticated SMTP server, add the following line to your .pinerc file:
smtp-server=post.rzg.mpg.de:587/tls/user=<RZG username>/novalidate-cert
The <RZG username> should be replaced by your RZG email user name.
The last option (novalidate-cert) will stop pine complaining about the certificate. It is not necessary if you installed the Telekom CA-certificate on your machine.
