smtp advice needed

[Tim Writer]

aacton-B71PBEe7S7Y at public.gmane.org writes:

> I need to mail sending help...
> 
> I just recently bought a router for my home network.  I needed it to be able to
> use my new Prismiq media player (VERY cool, prismiq.com).  Now it seems I cannot
> send email from home though...  My SMTP server at school seems to do some sort
> of reverse DNS on my IP, and since it's a local (192.168.) address, it can't
> find me, and thinks I'm a spambot.  I also tried using postfix directly, but it
> tries to do a DNS lookup on my hostname.  My router assigns me an arbitrary
> hostname (ususally: localhost) so that doesn't work either.  How the hell do
> people send email from behind a router?

Most commonly via direct SMTP to their ISP's SMTP server.  Another common
approach is to configure your MTA (postfix, sendmail, whatever) to forward
all outgoing e-mail to a "smart host", again usually your ISP's SMTP server.
There are other approaches but these are the simplest.

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