Joshua and Joerg said you can just send mail as whomever you like through your local SMTP relay; and while that's usually true, some conservative sysadmins will only allow relaying through of mail claiming to be from a particular sender domain; furthermore it's becoming more common for port 25 outgoing to be filtered when coming from "untrusted" networks.
Yes. I prefer not to fake the headers, which is why I asked the question.
Therefore, you have one other option involving SSH, but allowing you to use your local mail client. Minotaur.apache.org is configured to allow SMTP relaying via the localhost interface. So what you do is set up an SSH tunnel that connects your own localhost port X (X can be any value above 1024) to minotaur's localhost port 25; then in your mail client configuration, you set your SMTP server to be "localhost", port X. When you send a message, your mail client will connect to localhost:X, relayed over your SSH connection to localhost:25 on minotaur. I do this, though not with apache.org's server
In a similar way, you can use the POP service that runs on minotaur's localhost interface. Tunnel to localhost:110.
Nice! Finally got this to work. It took me a while to realize that you really did mean "localhost" on minotaur -- i.e., something like
ssh <username>@cvs.apache.org -L 109:localhost:110 -L 24:localhost:25
Thanks.
One more question: are there guidelines anywhere on when to use @apache.com email addresses? I have never used mine and would expect to use it only to subsribe to lists such as this, which is in fact what led to this question. I am not a PMC or ASF member, so I would never really be in a position to officially represent apache. Is there a policy on this?
I will submit a patch to newbie.faq summarizing responses to this question and providing at least linux - mozilla instructions for setting up tunnelling, as well as filling in the missing bit on how to set up .forward. I assume from the discussion above, however, that tunnelling is entirely optional.
Phil
Brian
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Phil Steitz wrote:
Apologies if the answer to this question is obvious and I have just not stumbled on it; but I am having a hard time "legally" sending mail from my apache email address. Short of logging in to minotaur via ssh and using pine, I know of no authenticated way to do this. I can't seem to connect my Mozilla mail client via SMTP. From the headers on mails from this and other apache lists, it looks like some folks are just modifying the headers. I can set up my local sendmail to push [EMAIL PROTECTED]; but that seems bogus to me. Even when I send from minotaur, the headers don't look right. Can someone give me a clue? What do other people do? Is there a doc on this somewhere?
Phil
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