> A fairly common problem these days - especially for laptops. > > If you always wish to send mail from one account (ie, work) - a VPN is > the safest solution; that way you avoid SPF and other spam detection > issues. > > Another approach, that I use on my laptops, is to use the Debian > sendmail hooks for ifup/ifdown (via dhcp/ppp) to customize the sendmail > configuration based upon what network you attach to.
There is another quite elegant approach for laptops. It is known by "mail using UUCP other SSH" and I have been using it for some days now. It works great whether you are home or anywhere else. It requires you to have root access on a machine capable of handling your mail though. Some links : http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/03/10/uucpmail.html (french) http://linuxfr.org/2001/04/08/3065.html A free service to host your mail domain with this method : http://uucpssh.org/ And a basic howto for Debian (by me) http://sousmonlit.dyndns.org/~niol/playa/oss:debhowto:uucp_ssh_mail Don't know if I'm on topic with this, but anyway it may solves some laptop's users problems and it is simpler than a VPN. Alexandre
