Getting around ISP SMTP firewall settings (Re: Submitting a new port if send-pr is broken)

Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 01:00:55 PST 2007


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BTW I a redirected this to -questions
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>
> You should be able to set up a local mailer/MTA (sendmail, postfix,
> etc.) and tell it to use your ISP's mail server on TCP port 25, and it
> all should just "magically work" unless they require SMTP AUTH (not many
> do from what I've seen; they base authentication on the source IP of
> customers).
>
> sendmail refers to this feature as SMART_HOST, while postfix refers to
> it as a transport destination (see transport(5)).

I have not set the MTA up yet for it but I did test it with
thunderbird... an other question how can I set it up that I can
receive mail (dynamic IP and 25 inbound is blocked)?


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Aryeh M. Friedman
Developer, not business, friendly
http://www.flosoft-systems.com
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