On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 05:51:16PM -0500, Brian R wrote:
> My isp is Time-Warner (roadrunner), they block incoming only. I am assuming
> this is to avoid the problems that @home has(had) with open mail relays and
> spamming, though i could be wrong. Yes, they do offer to open it for an
> additional cost. Unfortunately, for the same service i recieve now, it is
> almost 20 times more. Sorry, but that is too rich for my blood. This isn't
> for business, it is only for educational purposes. I do my own DNS through
> dhs.org, so I dont have to deal with my isp for that.
>
> the outside box , would be a friend doing me a favor so i thought a relay to
> a different port would be the most unobtrusive.(minimal resources used) I
> would then set his machine as my MX record in my DNS. And automagically i
> would begin being able to send and recieve mail.
>
> After reading several documents on relaying, i never saw anything about
> relaying to another port. So i wondered if it was possible to do with QMail.
> On the same note, is their anything special that needs to be done to QMail
> for it to listen on a non-standard port. (besides changing /etc/services)
On your friend's box, he should list your domain in rcpthosts, but not in
locals or virtualdomains. In smtproutes, he should put (for example):
yourdomain.com:yourbox.com:26
This makes his box send any @yourdomain.com mail to yourbox.com on port 26.
You'd have an instance of tcpserver/qmail-smtpd listening on port 26 (just
replace smtp with 26 in your tcpserver incantation). Configure your computer
normally for incoming mail for that domain (rcpthosts and locals or
virtualdomains), and you're all set.
Chris
