[NTLUG:Discuss] Comcast outbound email server

[Greg Edwards]

. 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?
> 

Daniel,

The easiest way I know to get what you want is to use Webmin to configure 
sendmail.  In the sendmail server section select "Sendmail Options".  Set 
the "Send outgoing mail via host" to your ISPs server.  Save, restart, 
done.  You'll need to make sure your ISP will allow you to relay from your 
domain through their server.

OBTW, in sendmail.cf this would be the DS value

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSHOST.ISPDOMAIN.NAME


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