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I get around this problem by running a zebedee tunnel on the laptop to |
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my home server using imap: the tunnel surfaces inside my home LAN which |
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is heavily firewalled, but unauthenticated internally. |
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Avoids a whole lot of issues running public servers, as well as |
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simplifying laptop setup. |
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BillK |
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On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 15:15 +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: |
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> Stroller wrote: |
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> > Set "relayhost" on the laptop to be your home mail server, then. You'll |
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> > need to setup Postfix on the laptop to authenticate & do SSL but it's |
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> > easily done. |
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> > Stroller. |
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> Hmm some interesting ideas, thanks! I also found something called 'nullmailer' |
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> which sounds like it works in a way similar to Stroller's description of the |
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> apple mailer. But I think it's a daemon, which wants to be running. |
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> I *do* have a home server which is running SMTP, it accepts email from my LAN, |
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> but not the outside world. Running postfix but haven't looked into learning how |
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> to set up SMTP authentication. |
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> Unfortunately, that wouldn't help anyway since at work, where I tend to plug my |
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> laptop in, I'm firewalled off from my home server. |
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> Ah, well, I'll keep digging :-) |
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> Tom |
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