Rohit saw fit to inform LI that:
>Arbit question and probably not related to Linux. Still I must ask.
>It is possible for me to send mails outside [to the world] from my
>own machine using smtp port 25 of another machine on that network,
>which _has_ an absolute IP address. I have configured that as the
>smtp server for my sendmail.
OK. Is _your_ box a linux box? If so,
1. Stop sendmail
2. Edit /etc/sendmail.cf
3. Look for a line marked DS
4. Make it DS your.smtp.server
#use fqdn, or use [ip.ad.re.ss] (square brackets)
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In yr smtp servers sendmail.cw set 10.0.0. or 192.168. (your local subnet)
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