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Re: Sending mail when away



On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:32:40PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> At home I have Alltel as my ISP and use mutt to send/receive mail. 
> However, when I'm at work or out of state at my inlaws, for example, I
> want to continue to use mutt for both reading and responding to mail
> messages.  However, I get errors when trying to send mail, because mutt
> (and my ~/.msmtprc file) is set up to use Alltel for SMTP
> (mail.alltel.net) which does not require authorization.  Hence, I get a
> failure when connected through Comcast, for example, because they won't
> relay mail.  How do I circumvent this?  Do I need to set up numerous
> SMTP servers for each location I visit?  In the meantime, I'm using my
> Fastmail account's web interface for sending.  A real pain, as I don't
> use this for reading mail.
>

So are you using a laptop? Perhaps you can use a VPN to your home and
connect to Alltel that way?

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