[Techtalk] Setting up Sendmail for relaying to ISP

[Carla Schroder]

On Monday 09 December 2002 09:00, Jennifer Davis wrote:
> My ISP, Bell Sympatico, decided a while back to block port 25 to all
> servers except their own.  This is not a big deal, except now I have
> volunteered to host a mailing list and I assume that I need to configure
> it so that the outbound traffic goes through their servers.
>
> I had it set up before I upgraded my OS to Slack 8.1, so I know its
> doable, I just foret how.  My internet searches have proved that I am
> clueless when it comes to this.  Are there any tutorials in plain English
> (or French) that can help me with this?
>

Are you running a mailserver? If you are, you're out of luck- you need to 
receive inbound mail on your own port 25.

Outbound is easy, just use their SMTP server, the same one you set up in your 
email client for sending mail.


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