[TriLUG] Re: sendmail and alternate ports

John Franklin franklin at elfie.org
Thu Jun 6 13:18:46 EDT 2002


On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 08:48:24AM -0400, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 08:20, Thunder Bear wrote:
> > Try using stunnel on your laptop to send all outbound port 25 traffic
> > through a different port over ssl to your home machine, which will then
> > stunnel back down to port 25.
> 
> That'll only cover a part of what he's got going on. Mutt calls sendmail
> directly, which will try to route to the remote MX. If you tell sendmail
> to use the smart host "localhost" (I cannot remember ths exact setting
> ATM), and use stunnel, it should work.

Mutt may call sendmail, but it's not hardcoded.  Change the sendmail 
variable in mutt to be stunnel sendmail [whatever options].  You can 
do this in your .muttrc or from inside mutt with :set sendmail=<blah>

jf
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John Franklin
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