On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 12:41 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > Hey folks, > > I have a basic roaming laptop 'situation' -- ie laptop moves around > between different networks. I also have a public mail server on a static > IP address. > > I thought for various reasons it would be convienient for my laptop to > relay mail through my server. The normal way to do this seems to be with > SASL authentication to the server.
SMTP-AUTH can be troublesome because there are a lot of ISPs and other public networks that will block outgoing SMTP as part of their "spam prevention strategy". I'm afraid I don't have the answers for your SMTP- AUTH setup, but another option you might want to consider is using 'autossh' to make a tunnel and have your local postfix use the tunnel as a smart-relay. I have found the best solution to this problem is to set my outgoing mailserver to 'mail' and let whatever resolver DHCP gives me work it out. Most admins seem to be nice enough to give these generic names to things. Likewise 'ntp' for ntp etc. I realise this doesn't do what you want, but it does work pretty well. Sorry I can't help with your problem but it might be another way to do what you want. James. -- James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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