Sendmail Smart Relay Configuring

James Wilkinson fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk
Wed Feb 15 13:08:51 UTC 2006


Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
> I seem to be in a bit of a pickle.  I can't seem to get my Fedora Core 4 
> machine to do smart relay to an smtp server that I have an account on to 
> be able to send mail.
> 
> Work has decided to give me a new machine and with that comes web 
> restriction where I don't have access to send mail on port 587.  So 
> since I still can connect to my home network, I want to be able to 
> forward mail to my home machine and have it relay mail on that port to 
> the external smtp server.

You could always ssh to your home machine and set up port forwarding.

That way it would look to your home machine as though the connections
were coming from localhost.

James.

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