Request for assistance

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 10:07:24AM -0500, Mark Glassberg wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:18:51PM -0500, John Abreau wrote:
> > Those are two entirely different modes of operation. When you telnet 
> > to port 25, the remote sendmail sees you as the direct end-user sending 
> > the message, whereas when your sendmail relays your message to the 
> > remote sendmail, the remote sendmail sees your sendmail as a middle-man. 
> > While such relaying is part of the basic design of sendmail, the fact 
> > remains that spammers have taken unscrupulous advantage of it for years, 
> > and as a result it's now considered bad practice to allow relaying in any 
> > but the most controlled and restricted fashion. 
> > 
> > The normal approach would be to ask your ISP to modify their server's 
> > setup to allow relaying from your address. I wouldn't expect much 
> > cooperation from them on this, though. 
> 
> Neither do I.  Is there any way to get my sendmail mailer to imitate a
> direct connection?  If not, do you know of a linux mailer that can?  If
> not, do you know of a linux user mail program to replace mutt which
> sends mail to an external server? 

Replace sendmail with nullmailer http://untroubled.org/nullmailer/