Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-08 Thread Roel Schroeven
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:33:28AM -0700, James Vahn wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear list, I have been using fetchmail + procmail + exim4 to handle my mail. I have a setup by which certain messages are received by procmail, and a copy of some is forwarded to another

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-08 Thread Roel Schroeven
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:33:28AM -0700, James Vahn wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear list, I have been using fetchmail + procmail + exim4 to handle my mail. I have a setup by which certain messages are received by procmail, and a copy of some is forwarded to another

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:52:14PM +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:33:28AM -0700, James Vahn wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear list, I have been using fetchmail + procmail + exim4 to handle my mail. I have a setup by which certain messages

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-08 Thread James Vahn
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:54:38PM -0700, James Vahn wrote: Meaning that this command does not produce a response? telnet smarthost 25 Exactly. So what happens if you run exim on another port, and then do your port forwarding on that very same computer?

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-08 Thread Roel Schroeven
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:52:14PM +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:33:28AM -0700, James Vahn wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear list, I have been using fetchmail + procmail + exim4 to handle my mail. I have a setup by

Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear list, I have been using fetchmail + procmail + exim4 to handle my mail. I have a setup by which certain messages are received by procmail, and a copy of some is forwarded to another address automatically. Now, recently, due to excessive spread of viruses on the network due to a popular but

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-07 Thread James Vahn
Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear list, I have been using fetchmail + procmail + exim4 to handle my mail. I have a setup by which certain messages are received by procmail, and a copy of some is forwarded to another address automatically. Now, recently, due to excessive spread of viruses on the

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:33:28AM -0700, James Vahn wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear list, I have been using fetchmail + procmail + exim4 to handle my mail. I have a setup by which certain messages are received by procmail, and a copy of some is forwarded to another address

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-07 Thread Laurent CARON
Kumar Appaiah a écrit : On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:33:28AM -0700, James Vahn wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear list, I have been using fetchmail + procmail + exim4 to handle my mail. I have a setup by which certain messages are received by procmail, and a copy of some is forwarded to

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:28:49PM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: Kumar Appaiah a écrit : The problem is that all my requests to the smarthost's port 25 are blocked. So, I try to ssh to another computer, forward the port 25 of that SMTP server to port 10025 on my computer, and tell exim to use

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Kumar Appaiah wrote: Because there is no SMTP server running there! The server runs SMTP on port 25, which is blocked, and I have a connection to that port 25 through my machine's 10025 port. Do you control that other machine? What is preventing you from opening up another port for Exim

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-07 Thread James Vahn
Kumar Appaiah wrote: The problem is that all my requests to the smarthost's port 25 are blocked. Meaning that this command does not produce a response? telnet smarthost 25 smarthost being something like mail.isp.com or (better) their IP address. Will they give you an MX address?

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:08:01PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: Because there is no SMTP server running there! The server runs SMTP on port 25, which is blocked, and I have a connection to that port 25 through my machine's 10025 port. Do you control that other

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:54:38PM -0700, James Vahn wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: The problem is that all my requests to the smarthost's port 25 are blocked. Meaning that this command does not produce a response? telnet smarthost 25 Exactly. But I have ssh access to another

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-07 Thread Steve Lamb
James Vahn wrote: Meaning that this command does not produce a response? James, you're way off base. Look, his ISP has blocked him from outbound port 25 connections. He did not every connect to his ISP's SMTP server. He does not want to connect to his ISP's SMTP server. He wants to

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:08:01PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Do you control that other machine? What is preventing you from opening up another port for Exim (presuming it is running Exim) to listen to? 1.I do not control the other machine. 2.How would making exim4 on

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Kumar Appaiah wrote: Thanks for patiently anwering my query, hope it's clear now. Now, can you think of a solution? How attached are you to Exim? Personally when it comes to smarthost relaying I found nullmailer to be a much better alternative. Smaller, specially designed to forward to a