From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3X4s-0004Ab-Kr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:38:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B868E087C; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413FEE087C for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B98EE64143 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:38:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.499 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.499 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.900, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4CSdyCTGUbeR for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 186AF66A25 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:37:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N3X4M-0006H7-11 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:37:46 +0100 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:37:46 +0100 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:37:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: public mail server for ELOG? Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:37:05 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87pr86tdni.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <49bf44f10910280936m47613bfx91827e3c3d4a30c6@mail.gmail.com> <200910282057.47078.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <49bf44f10910281227q3d61964ei593fa159d3911256@mail.gmail.com> <200910282133.51141.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <49bf44f10910281422n721c811cqbe099bfc228ea7de@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FIUXU+owRFo9q6iZQ2GDSBoaq70= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 7085e01b-bb30-4b49-bca4-2482a01a0c95 X-Archives-Hash: f9d041af6441f8581476048ddbd0496e Grant writes: [...] > > So I need a relay somewhere along with ssmtp to get a message to an > email address? Yes, and I know of at least one that will work for you. If you have a newsguy mail account, newsguy's smtp servers will allow you to connect regardless of your laptops' outward IP. (unless it is a blackballed Domain or something) Don't now if its worth it to you to pay for a newsguy mail account but I think that would work. It has for me in the past. I recommend using sendmail not ssmtp. Sendmail is better documented than any of the others... well at least ones I have fiddled with. I suppose ssmtp is all you need but why not use the real McCoy? Its easy enough to setup. And in fact setting up sendmail to `masquerade' your IP as the domain of your mail account is easy enough, and that alone may get what you want to work. So you would setup sendmail to use your mail accounts smtp server as what is called the `SMART_HOST', and to masquerade your domain as well as the all important `Envelope' (The real sender of mail info) The gotcha here is that any of the methods offered will almost certainly require a username and passwd to connect to the smtp server. In the case of sendmail it would be in a root owned file in /etc/mail that I believe can be set chmod 600. I'll try it and let you know if you are interested.