MacIntoshes

[Keith Mastin]

> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 19:29:43 -0400
> Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> uttered:
>
>> > now what I do is tell Postfix to relay my mail through Sympatico's
>> smtp server, and all is well. But you seem to be saying there is a
>> way I could do this by "masquerading"...I'll have to do more reading
>> obviously...
>>
>> Your email program sets the sender email address to joe-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org,
>> it could equally well set it to joe-np+G4h7g1y3hvxM+mQhndA at public.gmane.org  The email would be
>> accepted by your local postfix, relayed to sympatico's mailserver and
>> from there it would go to where it belongs, everyone happy, no need
>> for masquerading.
>
> I realize that, but in the end I wanted to bypass Sympatico altogether,
> have all incoming and outgoing mail processed "inhouse", as it were. I'm
> fairly comfortable with Postfix and Procmail, but it's the WAN processes
> that I still have not grokked fully, ie. MX records, A records, etc.

There's nothing wrong with sending mail through sympatico. Unless the
reader is a geek and likes to see all the headers, they probably won't
know.

Have you been able to receive the mail so far? I understand they block
port 25 incoming.

> I'm pretty sure to do what I want I'll need to switch providers and snag
> a static IP, I was just reading below about istop, sounds very
> promising...

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Keith Mastin
BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc.
Toronto, Canada
(416)696 6070


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