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| retiredhobbyist@fastmail.fm 2005-11-26, 5:46 pm |
| Could someone answer a basic question?
I would like to resume operation of a remailer that I once ran,
but, because of the setup here, I need to change the port of the
smtp server from 25 to something else, for example, to 525.
If I do that, what is the format of the To field for a message that
is intended for the remailer? Or is an additional header needed?
Clearly, the remailer won't be very useful if the JCL needs
something unusual to access it.
Thanks for any information.
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| Borked Pseudo Mailed 2005-11-26, 5:46 pm |
| In article <1133027883.6152.248377739@webmail.messagingengine.com>
retiredhobbyist@fastmail.fm wrote:
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> I would like to resume operation of a remailer that I once ran
...a long, long time ago.
Like two weeks ago?
Hi eelbash!
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| Dingo Admin 2005-11-26, 5:46 pm |
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On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, retiredhobbyist@fastmail.fm wrote:
>Could someone answer a basic question?
>
>I would like to resume operation of a remailer that I once ran,
>but, because of the setup here, I need to change the port of the
>smtp server from 25 to something else, for example, to 525.
>
>If I do that, what is the format of the To field for a message that
>is intended for the remailer? Or is an additional header needed?
>
>Clearly, the remailer won't be very useful if the JCL needs
>something unusual to access it.
>
>Thanks for any information.
>--
>
> retiredhobbyist@fastmail.fm
The headers would be irrelevant as far as port numbers are concerned. I
believe you will need to accept connections on port 25 in order for your
remailer to function. The other ports you may open for SMTP would be in
addition to, not instead of, port 25.
I may be mistaken, though. Perhaps someone else will verify this
information for me.
Dingo Admin
dingoadmin@dingoremailer.com
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| Anonymous 2005-11-26, 5:46 pm |
| In article
<1133027883.6152.248377739@webmail.messagingengine.com>
retiredhobbyist@fastmail.fm wrote:
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> Could someone answer a basic question?
>
> I would like to resume operation of a remailer that I once ran,
> but, because of the setup here, I need to change the port of the
> smtp server from 25 to something else, for example, to 525.
>
> If I do that, what is the format of the To field for a message that
> is intended for the remailer? Or is an additional header needed?
>
> Clearly, the remailer won't be very useful if the JCL needs
> something unusual to access it.
>
> Thanks for any information.
Change it to whatever you like. Unfortunately you'll have to
advertise it and rely on people who know what they're doing
being able to fiddle with their mail software to send the
message to you directly (not via their ISP's mail smarthost) as
an entry point in the remailer network. It just won't work for
being in the middle of a chain because other remailer's mail
servers will just try port 25 and fail.
So, in essence, it's a non starter.
You would be better served looking at getting a free account
(gmail, hotmail, etc) and then grabbing the mail from that every
5 minutes using POP3.
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| retiredhobbyist@fastmail.fm 2005-11-26, 8:45 pm |
| On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:47:19 +0000, Anonymous wrote:
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> Change it to whatever you like. Unfortunately you'll have to advertise it
> and rely on people who know what they're doing being able to fiddle with
> their mail software to send the message to you directly (not via their
> ISP's mail smarthost) as an entry point in the remailer network. It just
> won't work for being in the middle of a chain because other remailer's
> mail servers will just try port 25 and fail.
>
> So, in essence, it's a non starter.
Thanks, in playing around with it, I was tending to that
realization myself.
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> You would be better served looking at getting a free account (gmail,
> hotmail, etc) and then grabbing the mail from that every 5 minutes using
> POP3.
That seems like the only way to do it; in looking at several
places, it appears their services - I'm talking about paid-for
business-class - don't allow a lot of total transfer bandwidth for
a busy remailer; but one that's somewhat south of 99 percent in the
charts will probably stay within their limits.
Anyway, an interesting example of how flexibly remailers can
(probably) be run.
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| Anonymous 2005-11-26, 8:45 pm |
| In article <6X7HBGFR38683.3244791667@reece.net.au>
retiredhobbyist@fastmail.fm wrote:
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> On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:47:19 +0000, Anonymous wrote:
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> Thanks, in playing around with it, I was tending to that
> realization myself.
>
>
> That seems like the only way to do it; in looking at several
> places, it appears their services - I'm talking about paid-for
> business-class - don't allow a lot of total transfer bandwidth for
> a busy remailer; but one that's somewhat south of 99 percent in the
> charts will probably stay within their limits.
>
> Anyway, an interesting example of how flexibly remailers can
> (probably) be run.
You could run it quite easily from gmail / hotmail.
For an average sized remailer, traffic runs to about 8MB per
hour (each way). You don't need a huge mailbox! Even if your
server went down for a few days, the POP3 box on somewhere like
gmail would easily cope (easpecially as the useage goes down
when your stats start to tail off).
If a paid for provider gets pissed off at 8MB per hour, they
don't deserve your business.
Try it with gmail, see how you get on.
Alternatively, if you also need help with outgoing mail,
consider COTSE.
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| George Orwell 2005-11-27, 2:46 am |
| In article < 162da9a81be28d4080b0831ff6fc7c63@remaile
r.org.uk>
Anonymous <devnull@remailer.org.uk> wrote:
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> For an average sized remailer, traffic runs to about 8MB per
> hour (each way).
He's Eelbash. He'll need more than 8mb per way when he floods the
newsgroup again.
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| Stray Cat 2005-11-27, 2:47 am |
| As stated by others, you will have to have your mail server listen on
TCP port 25 for your remailer to function with other mail servers.
Since you say you can't do this, then you will need to use a
redirector. See:
http://rollernet.us/services.php?smtp
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