[ltp] Sending email from laptops?

[James Knott]

ben wrote:
> Hi!  Apologies for the non-Thinkpad-specific question, but it's
> definitely a laptop question, and I'm writing this from a Thinkpad :)
> 
> What kinds of solutions do y'all use for sending email from the
> laptop?  Often I can't send because the receiver recognises that I'm
> spoofing my outgoing address (among things) and (wisely) bounces my
> mail.  What I think I'd like is something like this: my MTA (currently
> Postfix) logs me in to the pop3 server from which I retrieve my email,
> and use that as an authenticated relay.
> 
> I actually use pop to retrieve email to my desktop (permanent 'net
> connection, lots of disk space, etc).  Yes, it's nice to be able to
> send straight from my laptop, since I can write email while away from
> a network, etc.  And no, my desktop is behind a firewall so I can't
> run an "open" relay on it.
> 

I have a vpn configured between my notebook and home network, so that 
connections to the smtp server have to pass through the vpn and home 
network.  This way, my isp thinks I'm at home.  If I can't use my vpn, 
due to a firewall, where I'm plugged in, there's always webmail.