SMTP server or "forwarding"?

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Hey everyone,

Okay, a lot of ISPs now block port 25 out to anything other than their
SMTP server.  In some situations, it would be nice to circumvent this
to get to another SMTP server if one is not available.  So what I had
though is to setup my FC4 linux box to listen for SMTP traffic on a
non-standard port.  Actually, I could just have my hardware router
forward whatever port to 25 on the computer, so the non-standard port
part should be easy.  It would be nice to have a workable solution
with as little as possible.  Does anyone know of some way that I could
maybe take any traffic to my server on my chosen high port and forward
it along to my ISP's SMTP server on port 25?  It sounds possible, but
sketchy enough to where it might not be.  Any ideas?  I figure I could
always just setup my own SMTP server and that should work.  But I
would need to make sure I did that right as I do not want to aid in
the spread of spam and/or viruses.  Since it would be on a strange
port, it shouldn't be as big a problem, if at all.  Any ideas on that
point?  So, what do you think of my idea and options?  If I were to go
the route of setting up my own SMTP server (perhaps even so far as a
whole email server) any tips as to where to start looking for info on
doing this right?

Thanks,
Jonathan


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