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Authored by: serversurfer on May 07, '02 03:22:59AM

I have been setting multiple accounts. Now I have all the addresses I desire!! I can't believe it only took 14 months for someone to realize we could do this. I wonder if our computers can do anything else.



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*sigh* Still no joy here...
Authored by: network23 on May 07, '02 12:27:47PM

No luck for me. My hosting service changed their outgoing port to reduce the unapproved email. So until Apple decides to add an out port field, I still cannot email out with Mail.



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*sigh* Still no joy here...
Authored by: serversurfer on May 07, '02 03:19:17PM

Not to be obtuse, but did you try typing the port number directly into the "hostname" field? (port:isp.com or isp.com:port) After seeing the last tip, this could work!



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*sigh* Still no joy here...
Authored by: etrepum on May 07, '02 05:59:58PM

I use SSH port forwarding to do this, my mail server doesn't support SSL, but I can ssh tunnel to it since I have a physical account on the machine, which is at least as secure.

sudo ssh -L 25:yourmailserver:25 someuser@somehostyoucansshto

Technically you can have a "loopback" tunnel, by sshing to localhost (127.0.0.1) but then you don't get the added bonus of having an encrypted channel. Obviously using the actual mailserver as your ssh target is best, but at least you can get it safely out of your dialup or LAN even if you have to use an alternate target (other than localhost).



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*sigh* Still no joy here...
Authored by: bsd on May 18, '02 10:29:58PM

Please submit this as a tip. It'd be really helpful.

I can't exactly follow it, though. Can you clarify which host runs the ssh forwarding, and which hosts are named in the mail.app account?



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Original URL?!
Authored by: Brad Puett on May 07, '02 05:29:08PM

If anyone knows the original URL that points to this tip under the MacNN forums, could they post it here? I'd like to read the whole thread ...



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