Re: Submitting to freedb HOW?

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Todd Zullinger wrote:

> Jesse wrote:
> > How can Grip send an email to [email protected] when it does
> > not know what my SMTP mail server is?
> 
> It uses the sendmail command on your system.  That will connect
> directly to the freedb.org mail server and submit the mail.
> 
> > Where do I enter this information in the config?
> 
> Nowhere.  :)
> 
 
Finally, I pipe in.  This configuration assumption is too simplistic.

For instance, my local DSL provider BLOCKS all outbound and inbound port 25 packets
coming from or going to any machine with a customer IP address, in a
lame attempt to block spam.  This means I can't use sendmail without
going through an ssh tunnel, even when I'm using authenticated SMTP via
my primary ISP in Minneapolis.

The only way I can get SMTP/POP services now are by configuring an ssh tunnel on my
machine and configurating all my mail applications to use 'localhost 6025', which leads to my 
Minneapolis ISP's SMTP server.  My DSL provider doesn't block port 6025.

Because I'm technically a telnet-only shell user on my Minneapolis ISP, I don't have
their permission (or tolerance) to permanently configure my laptop's sendmail to use their
SMTP server as my upstream because as a shell/dial-in, I don't have a permanent DNS or IP
assignment.  I do have a sendmail process running on my machine but it's sole purpose is to
support MailScanner/Sophos anti-virus, and fetchmail, for local delivery of mail.  My sendmail
has no upstream connector.

Basically, what all this means is that I will never be able to submit anything using
grip because I can't configure grip's mail sending process.

You really should consider making this configurable, in the same way one can configure
the mp3 encoder and the ripper.  

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