On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 02:28:26PM +0800, tiger wrote: > relayhost is a good solution. it can, however, be a problem if you > connect through different ISPs. because then, your default relayhost > setting won't necessarily work with all those ISPs (it *can*, if you > have POP3 auth before SMTP, or if you have some sort of authenticated > SMTP, but for generic unauthenticated SMTP, it's going to work with > one ISP, and fail with all the others. >
Very true: in my case, I use ppp0 (blast.ph) for everyday hacking, and when I move my (big and heavy) CPU to the local caf� for a dselect update && dselect install, I switch to eth0 which runs on digitelone.com. Totally changes my net topology, so since then I've included scripts to ifupdown to deal with the changes... > SMTP forwarding over ssh is one way around this. i did that when i was > travelling overseas a while ago. when i'd go online, /etc/ppp/ip-up.local > would automatically setup the ssh forwarding of SMTP to my server in > the philippines, and then i'd just send to local SMTP (which would be > forwarded over ssh to the SMTP server overseas). > I have a shell account to spunge.org (Yep!). That trick sounds cool, but I'd like to implement that only when *I'm* the one using my machine. To see what I mean, take a look with the majority of people having email addresses: they're a big lot, and what's more, they have different domains, different ways of sending and receiving mail, etc... And take a look at today's MTAs: still singular, still designed for the purpose of handling the rfc-822 needs of a *single* system. A severe limitation, esp. for dynDNS users... What I want to have is like this: still keep an MTA around, but let it use SMTP settings on a per-user basis (i.e. some users prefer to use their own email-addy instead of of their site-provided addy, also others want to use direct SMTP instead of smarthost, and still others want mixmaster remailings, etc.) Have you heard about this functionality in today's MTAs? As for me, I haven't. Well, that's goin' to the wishlist. As for now, I'm gonna try out that SMTP over ssh trick and see what happens... Cheers, Zakame -- |*-------------ZAK B. ELEP (Registered Linux User #327585)-------------*| |* Web: http://zakame.spunge.org GPG ID: 0xFA53851D *| |* Phone: (+63)916-2458830 ICQ UIN: 33236644 *| |*----------1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D----------*| Debian - When you've got better things to do than to fix a borken system
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