Re: [Evolution] firewall issues blocking smtp port 25

[Raul Acevedo <raul cantara com>]

Well, I'm using the ssh port forwarding, though it's not necessary to  
use SOCKS, I just use ssh -L.  I was hoping to have it configurable  
via evolution so I don't have to run a separate shell just for the  
ssh command.

On Jul 16, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Tobias Mueller wrote:

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> Hi.
>
> On 11.07.2007 21:26, Raul Acevedo wrote:
> > I'm trying to use Evolution to send email via my personal home  
> > server from
> > behind a corporate firewall that is blocking port 25.  I can  
> > receive email
> > fine, since my home server is running IMAP, but since the firewall  
> > blocks
> > port 25, I can't send email.  I don't want to use sendmail locally to
> > relay to my server, since I want it to look like the email really did
> > originate from my home server.
> >
> > Is there a way to do this?  Perhaps via some sort of ssh port  
> > forwarding?
> Well, I have exactly the same problem. And my solution to this is  
> to use
> a TCP forwarding via an SOCKS proxy.
>
>   ssh -D7777 somehost
>
> creates a SOCKS proxy on your local machine on port 7777. You can use
> that now with your favourite application (capable connecting via SOCKS
> proxies) or you can force your application to direct every TCP packet
> through the proxy. I prefer the latter since I don't like to reset my
> apps everytime I everytime the state of beeing behind a firewall  
> changes.
> I achieve this by using "tsocks". I tiny tool which forces programs to
> use the provided SOCKS proxy (it's transparent).
>
> So just install "tsocks", configure it accordingly (should be just  
> a few
> lines) and start your application like "tsocks evolution".
>
> I hope that works for you as well.
>
> Cheers,
>   Muelli
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