On 1999-06-29 08:00:18 +0000, Fernando Blasco wrote:
> I've been using mutt for 3 months and I like it very much. Now my
> institution forbids us to use Linux computers as mail servers in
> order to prevent bulk mailing.
Bulk mailing has _nothing_ at all to do with the underlying
operating system, but with a MUA's configuration.
If your institution is afraid of internal private mail servers, they
should rather block port 25 for all except a few well known machines
at their gateway... Just my EUR 0.02.
> I'd like continue using mutt, but as far as I know, it uses
> sendmail, which needs to have open port 50. They suggest using
Port 25.
> Netscape or something similar, which operates without using
> sendmail.
You have several possibilities:
- Continue to run sendmail and just block incoming connections to
port 25 at the packet filter level. See the manual page for
ipfwadm or ipchains.
- Run sendmail without the -bd command line switch, so it doesn't
listen to port 25.
- Install ssmtp as a sendmail replacement. It's quite easy to
configure and instal, and it's available from any debian site.
- Ask your institution to revise their mail server policy.
