Remote Sendmail

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tue December 9 2003 01:34 pm, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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?
>

Or better yet, just set up sendmail or postfix to send the email from his 
machine and set his reply-to  to be his school email address.

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         12/09/03 14:36  +
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