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Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> writes: |
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> So I need a relay somewhere along with ssmtp to get a message to an |
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> email address? |
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Yes, and I know of at least one that will work for you. |
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If you have a newsguy mail account, newsguy's smtp servers will allow |
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you to connect regardless of your laptops' outward IP. (unless it is a |
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blackballed Domain or something) |
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Don't now if its worth it to you to pay for a newsguy mail account but |
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I think that would work. It has for me in the past. |
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I recommend using sendmail not ssmtp. Sendmail is better documented |
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than any of the others... well at least ones I have fiddled with. |
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I suppose ssmtp is all you need but why not use the real McCoy? Its |
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easy enough to setup. And in fact setting up sendmail to `masquerade' |
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your IP as the domain of your mail account is easy enough, and that |
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alone may get what you want to work. |
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So you would setup sendmail to use your mail accounts smtp server as |
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what is called the `SMART_HOST', and to masquerade your domain as well |
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as the all important `Envelope' (The real sender of mail info) |
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The gotcha here is that any of the methods offered will almost |
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certainly require a username and passwd to connect to the smtp |
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server. |
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In the case of sendmail it would be in a root owned file in /etc/mail |
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that I believe can be set chmod 600. I'll try it and let you know if |
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you are interested. |
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