I get around this problem by running a zebedee tunnel on the laptop to my home server using imap: the tunnel surfaces inside my home LAN which is heavily firewalled, but unauthenticated internally.
Avoids a whole lot of issues running public servers, as well as simplifying laptop setup. BillK On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 15:15 +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: > Stroller wrote: > > Set "relayhost" on the laptop to be your home mail server, then. You'll > > need to setup Postfix on the laptop to authenticate & do SSL but it's > > easily done. > > > > Stroller. > > > > Hmm some interesting ideas, thanks! I also found something called > 'nullmailer' > which sounds like it works in a way similar to Stroller's description of the > apple mailer. But I think it's a daemon, which wants to be running. > > I *do* have a home server which is running SMTP, it accepts email from my > LAN, > but not the outside world. Running postfix but haven't looked into learning > how > to set up SMTP authentication. > > Unfortunately, that wouldn't help anyway since at work, where I tend to plug > my > laptop in, I'm firewalled off from my home server. > > Ah, well, I'll keep digging :-) > > Tom > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
