Remote Sendmail

[Tim Raggatt]

>-- Original Message --
>From: Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>
>To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
>Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:37:21 -0500
>Subject: Re: Remote Sendmail
>Reply-To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
>
>
>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 se
>d 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 sp
>m! 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 
>ou 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 sendmai
> or postfix to send the email from his 
machine and set his reply-to  to be his school email address.

I managed to set up the hostname and username ok so the 'from' field looks
like it came from my uni account, but some servers reject it when they find
the domain(?) does not map to this address. Is there any way of changing
the domain to match?