[olug] email server setup question

[Neal Rauhauser]

 This is the incantation I use to get around Cox's mail policy of the week:

ssh -L 26:127.0.0.1:25 neal at webmail.rauhauser.net

 My local port 26 is claimed by ssh and forwarded to a machine that has 
a working sendmail daemon on it.


Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:

> Charles Bird wrote:
>
>> i have a lil squirrelmail server on a cox connection, i know i cant 
>> send out on port 25 due to cox spam reduction policy, is there a way 
>> to tell squirrel to send and listen on higher port and use a relay 
>> outside of cox network?
>
>
> I thought you could listen on 25, i.e. Cox doesn't block _incoming_ 
> traffic, but had to relay outgoing through their mail servers because 
> _outgoing_ was blocked.  But I've never done it so I may be 
> misunderstanding the issues.
>
>
> Tim
>