What's the best way to automatically swap smart hosts (sendmail)?

Dan Coutu coutu at snowy-owl.com
Tue Jul 1 09:54:40 EDT 2003


bscott at ntisys.com wrote:

>On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, at 9:31am, f at ke1g.mv.com wrote:
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>>	Can anyone think of any cool ways to do this?
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>  Use an SMTP relay that supports SMTP authentication, and will allow relay
>from outside the local network if SMTP AUTH is done.  Configure Sendmail to
>use that relay at all times, and to use SMTP AUTH.
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>  That will only not work if you travel between more than one network that
>blocks TCP 25 outbound.  If that's the case, yell.  :)
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Since MV now supports SMTP authentication I think that you have your 
solution. Use it all the time.




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