Around Mon,Sep 29 2003, at 11:43, Bob Miller, wrote: > Ben Barrett wrote: > > > PS - I had to do some minor sleuthing to figure out the SMTP server for > > this free wifi location; they are running InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 and I > > used both the message source of a mail I was able to send to myself from > > my home ISP's SMTP, and'dig MX<domain>' (then'telnet<mailhost> 25') to > > figure that out... glory be to FOSS! BTW, does anyone have any > > suggestions to more-easily figure out local SMTP's for random internet > > access locations? traceroute didn't work... > > (they also seem to block some pings, incidentally -- I couldn't ping > > home, even though I could access home by web -- but I can ping google) > > If you have a home base, use ssh to tunnel SMTP through your home base > to your normal SMTP server. > > E.g., if your home box is home.base.example.org, and your usual > mail server is mail.example.net, use this command (as root). > > # ssh -f -L 25:mail.example.net:25 home.base.example.org > > Then you never need to find the local smtp server or worry about how > it might restrict/mangle/destroy your mail. > While you're at it. do: # ssh -f -L 25:mail.example.net:25 -L 110:pop.example.net:110 home.base.example.org
And tunnel your POP mail also. Of course you would set the incoming mail to 127.0.0.1:110 and your outgoing mail server to 127.0.0.1:25 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
