Remote Sendmail

[Michael Hipp]

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!

If theirs is set up like most, it won't be possible for you to send 
email thru it as it won't accept email from outside their own network. 
(They do this to avoid inadvertently becoming a spam relay.)


Any reason you can't just use your ISP's smtp server?

Michael