On 2007-11-26 04:00, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >BTW I a redirected this to -questions >> You should be able to set up a local mailer/MTA (sendmail, postfix, >> etc.) and tell it to use your ISP's mail server on TCP port 25, and >> it all should just "magically work" unless they require SMTP AUTH >> (not many do from what I've seen; they base authentication on the >> source IP of customers). >> >> sendmail refers to this feature as SMART_HOST, while postfix refers >> to it as a transport destination (see transport(5)). > > I have not set the MTA up yet for it but I did test it with > thunderbird... an other question how can I set it up that I can > receive mail (dynamic IP and 25 inbound is blocked)?
Thunderbird doesn't necessarily go through an SMTP connection to the local host, so it may work with or without a local MTA installation & setup (depending on which host you forward outgoing email). If you set up Thunderbird to use `localhost' for outgoing email, then you have to also configure a local MTA (Sendmail, Postfix, or qmail are popular choices). I don't think there's an easy way to set up the local Sendmail installation to *receive* email from the world without some sort of `static address' though. To do that, you would have to work with your ISP, so that: * Your address does not change semi-randomly or ramdonly. * Your fully qualified domain resolves correctly and its MX records point to your static IP address. * Your incoming port 25 traffic is not filtered. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"