[NTLUG:Discuss] Comcast outbound email server

[Jay Urish]

. Daniel wrote:
> I am a really stupid person sometimes.  Just wanted to say that 
> first-thing so that no one else needs to remind me.  Sendmail config 
> files make me dizzy to look at them.  But let me state what I want to 
> happen and then I will hope that someone else here is already doing that 
> and is willing to tell me how.
> 
> I run my own personal domain at home.  I connect using Comcast.  I 
> receive email just fine but if I were to send outbound email from my IP 
> address, much of the time it is blocked in some way because I am 
> operating from a residential IP address.  So I need to send to a server 
> that isn't blocked.  My solution for now is to configure my client 
> software to send to alternative outgoing email servers.  For now, I am 
> using my domain registrar's outbound server which requires SMTP AUTH.  I 
> can set that up on my clients just fine, but I'm lost in setting it up 
> on sendmail.  Sendmail, as I mentioned before, invariably results in 
> dizziness and nausea.  (Doctors have recommended discontinuing use, but 
> I have found other MTAs confusing to get set up... Sendmail, basically, 
> just works... basically.)
> 
> So I'm hoping someone else has conquered this problem and wouldn't mind 
> sharing with me?
> 

1st I think you should upgrade to postfix. Sendmail is beyond a pain to
configure. If you do upgrade, look in main.cf when you are done for the
smarthost config lines.. They are pretty well documented.

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