Vineet Kumar wrote:
>
...
> > decision I disagree with. And seeing as that screening server has
> > already had three significant downtimes in the past month I'd like to
> > bypass it altogether.
>
> Before you spend a lot of time and energy downloading and compiling
> something of your own, make sure you check whether it will work by
> attempting an outgoing connection to port 25 (of any reliable smtp
> server). If the policy is to redirect all mail to a screening host, I'd
> be surprised if there wasn't a firewall rule to enforce that policy by
> disallowing outgoing connections to port 25.
So tunnel a local port thru an SSH server listening to
port 443 (https), and connect to your favourite SMTP server
from there.
Usually does the trick. Unless you have a really paranoid admin.
btw,
can't the dev team reconsider and *allow mutt to have SMTP
capabilities*.... please pretty please....
/magnus
>
> Cheers,
>
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