My mail use is very different that others, since I am operating at Defcon Level 3 most of the time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON) due to security work, public persona.
ssmtp works great for outgoing mail to gmail:
http://www.sysadminsjourney.com/2008/09/01/use-gmail-as-an-smtp-relay-using-ssmtp
mailx and msmtp work too:
http://www.ericstockwell.com/?p=3
I also just use Sendmail SMTP/TLS to gmail (with cox - they limit ports):
http://www.linuxha.com/other/sendmail/
There is also PostFix and FetchMail versions:
http://linuxgazette.net/115/chirico1.html
And KMail:
http://www.linux-archive.org/kubuntu-user/263638-using-kmail-send-mail-through-gmail.html
And ruby: (nice within Puppet)
http://forums.pragprog.com/forums/43/topics/541
And fake sendmail for windows:
http://glob.com.au/sendmail/
ssmtp the (software) package doesn't appear to be all that it's cracked
up to be: http://www.davidgrant.ca/ssmtp_vs_postfix_no_contest
As for gmail's free ssmpt service, I haven't looked into it. I figure
there's gotta be some sort of limit, catch, or something I would find
objectionable. "There's no free lunch".
> <mailto:ejs@shubes.net>> wrote:
Lisa Kachold wrote:
> Gmail ssmtp works too. It's free!
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs@shubes.net
>
> Right. I use dyndns.org <http://dyndns.org>'s mailhop outbound in
> these cases.
> 150 outbound emails per day for $15/year.
> Affordable, and it works flawlessly.
>
> Bob Elzer wrote:
> > your right. I forgot I was able to get it working, but because
> the IP 's are
> > dynamic, they are on mailing blacklist, so if a site uses one of the
> > blacklists, you can't send mail to it.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> <mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> <mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>] On Behalf Of
> Eric
> > Shubert
> > Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 7:38 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> <mailto:plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> > Subject: Re: Ummm...need a little bit of router config help...
> >
> > I know of 3 qwest dsl customers who have no blocking on port 80
> or 25. I
> > haven't heard of qwest blocking any ports before this post. I
> know that
> > they do have restrictions on using their outbound mail servers
> (mail must
> > come from their email accounts, which is reasonable I suppose).
> >
> > Bob Elzer wrote:
> >> Qwest only blocks port 25, I'm running a web on 80 it works ok.
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> <mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> >> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> <mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>] On Behalf Of
> >> Joseph Sinclair
> >> Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 4:58 PM
> >> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> >> Subject: Re: Ummm...need a little bit of router config help...
> >>
> >> Lisa Kachold wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jim March
> <1.jim.march@gmail.com <mailto:1.jim.march@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Any idea what I've missed here?
> >>> I believe that the Quest DSL allows port 80 inbound, but I would
> >>> check
> >> this.
> >>
> >> I think Lisa may have hit the problem here:
> >>
> >> Try setting the forward on the router to route some other port (e.g.
> >> 45786) on the outside interface to your zoneminder server on
> port 80.
> >> If that works, then you're dealing with a QWest issue, and you
> should
> >> be able to just use some alternate high-range port.
> >>
> >> BTW, don't try the obvious 8080, 8000, etc... If they block 80,
> they
> >> typically block those too. They almost never block ports above
> 32768,
> >> however.
> >
> >
> > --
> > -Eric 'shubes'
> >
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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