Remote Sendmail

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Tim Raggatt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a bit of a newbie, so bear with me!
>
> I have a remote email account with my college and I want to set my computer
> at home up so that I can send mail through it. I've already managed to set
> up mutt to access it using IMAP, but when I send a mail from my machine,
> it has the wrong source IP in it (ie. mine, rather than my colleges), which
> causes some mailservers to treat it as spam! How can I set it all up so
> that it contains the correct IP? (I figured it would mean accessing sendmail
> on the remote server??)
>
> If anyone could help, that'd be great!

I'm somewhat confused by your setup.  Are you using your box, or your
college's SMTP server as the MTA?  Do you really mean IP (address), or do
you mean domain name?  And can you give an example of the wrong & correct
result?

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