[AktiviX-discuss] smtp

[Alan Dawson]

Quoting mp <mp at aktivix.org>:

> 
> ana says that SSH tunnelling does also not work for her, suggesting that
> there could be something blocking outgoing connections (given that the
> account she is using is ssh enabled)? i believe she is behind some dodgy
> AOL thingie.

I think AOL transparently proxy port 25 

This can be checked by 
typing
telnet 195.10.228.55 25
at  prompt

and looking at the banner that is returned

we show something like
220 springnight.burngreave.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE
Linux 0.7; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:19:06 +0100

an AOL user will see something quite different.


If its possible to ssh in to springnight you can use ssh to escape your ISP's
manipulation

for example

ssh aland at 195.10.228.55 -L 2525:195.10.228.55:25


then if i start a new shell i can  do

aland at freedom:~$ telnet localhost 2525
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 springnight.burngreave.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE
Linux 0.7; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:16:57 +0100

Yes ?

This means ( to me ) that port 2525 on my localcomputer has been attached to
port 25 on springnight.burngreave.net tunneled and encrypted through ssh.


Ana.. if you do this you'll need to replace springnight.burngreave.net and port
25 with localhost and port 2525 in your thunderbird config.

AED
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