[TriLUG] Re: sendmail and alternate ports

Thunder Bear thunderbear at yonderway.com
Thu Jun 6 08:20:09 EDT 2002


On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 07:07, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:

> As an alternative solution, I can shut down my laptop's sendmail
> and tunnel port 25 from my external mail server through ssh.
> Unfortunately, mutt uses /sbin/sendmail to post outbound messages,
> so they end up in the queue of my local (non-running) sendmail
> daemon anyway.  (/sbin/sendmail tries to send immediately [which
> fails], and then queues it up for retrying.)

Try using stunnel on your laptop to send all outbound port 25 traffic
through a different port over ssl to your home machine, which will then
stunnel back down to port 25.





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