On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net> wrote: > Asif Iqbal wrote: > >> You are right I cannot talk to any domain's MX. My ISP is cox and I cannot >> even talk to their two MXs on port 25. I guess I could do a nmap to find >> what port they are using for MX. They might require some authentication. >> I have no idea what my login is to my cox account. > > Neither smtp.east.cox.net nor smtp.west.cox.net work for you? Perhaps > the mx.*.cox.net servers are for incoming *only*. But I am just > speculating -- best to verify this with your ISP.
I will try again when I get to work. > >> > Also see: >> > http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#relayhost >> >> Relay Host would probably be my only option. However using postfix relay with >> gmail seems to be a *lot* of work > > It is not a lot of work at all; what gave you the assumption that it is? This url suggests so. http://prantran.blogspot.com/2007/01/getting-postfix-to-work-on-ubuntu-with.html I could skip the signing part and just a .pem file. But seems like I will also need a Thawte certificate. Well it is doable but not a snap like install nullmailer and stunnel and just create a fake circitificate and talk to gmail on port 465. :-) I will try the gmail as relayhost > > -- > Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net> > -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu
