On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:08:07AM -0400, Trevor Smith wrote: > I haven't tried this at school yet, when I have traditionially had to use > mail.haligonian.com but I'm guessing that when I'm there, sympatico will deny > me use to their servers. > > Does anyone have any advice on a simple, no manual intervention way to send > email from a laptop regardless of network that I'm attached to? I have a similar problem. I was having to switch between two different SMTP servers depending on whether my laptop was at home or at work. For awhile, I just used sendmail to deliver mail directly. Then I found that some of my mail was bouncing because ISPs had deemed my IP address was part of a block of DHCP-assigned IP addresses. This was presumably done to keep spammers and virus-infected machines from sending mail directly from their PC. I use mutt[1] and esmtp[2]. I have two scripts: mutt-home and mutt-work. mutt-home runs mutt with a .muttrc that invokes esmtp with an .esmtprc that uses my ISP's SMTP server. mutt-work runs mutt with a .muttrc that invokes esmtp with an .esmtprc that uses the SMTP server at work. There are probably more elegant ways to handle this, but I find this works well for me. Maybe this will give you some ideas. [1] http://www.mutt.org/ [2] http://esmtp.sf.net/
