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Make my laptop appear to be at home
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| ken.strauss@sympatico.ca 2005-10-08, 5:49 pm |
| I have setup a VPN server using a DLink DI-804. I can now use my laptop
to access my home network from a hotspot. Everything works great but...
My ISP insists that access to his SMTP server can only come from
addresses in his address space. How can I configure things to allow me
to send email from a hotspot via my VPN connection to home?
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| Paul Hunt 2005-10-08, 5:49 pm |
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On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 12:01:53 -0400, <ken.strauss@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I have setup a VPN server using a DLink DI-804. I can now use my laptop
> to access my home network from a hotspot. Everything works great but...
> My ISP insists that access to his SMTP server can only come from
> addresses in his address space. How can I configure things to allow me
> to send email from a hotspot via my VPN connection to home?
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using webmail would resolve this problem. I believe that sympatico.ca
offers this service.
regards,
Paul Hunt
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| ken.strauss@sympatico.ca 2005-10-08, 8:45 pm |
| Webmail is available via Sympatico and it is my current workaround.
Unfortunately, it doesn't interface with my Outlook address book, I
can't use Word as my editor, I can't prepare messages offline,
attachments are an issue, etc., etc.
I can use pop3 to retrieve my messages from anywhere; sending via smtp
is the problem.
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| Gerd Busker 2005-10-09, 7:45 am |
| ken.strauss@sympatico.ca wrote:
> I have setup a VPN server using a DLink DI-804. I can now use my laptop
> to access my home network from a hotspot. Everything works great but...
> My ISP insists that access to his SMTP server can only come from
> addresses in his address space. How can I configure things to allow me
> to send email from a hotspot via my VPN connection to home?
I presume at the moment your lappy is sending directly to your ISP SMTP
server, without using the VPN?
I think the simplest way would be to set up a machine at home to act as SMTP
gateway. This machine would be on your VPN and always send mail from the
same address.
If you don't want to have a machine at home you should be able to do some
trickery with an IP address on your VPN that does a translation to the ISP
mail server, but this might be tricky to set up.
(So you need to forward requests for port 25 to your virtual mail server on
your VPN (let's say 10.99.99.2) to smtp.yourisp)
Gerd.
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