Gotta love linux...

[Jeremy Bowers]

So a couple days ago I get a frantic question from why wife... "Why can't I
send e-mail?!?!?" Turns out they shut down Pilot's open relaying, and from
@Home, we can't send to anybody off campus.

So I sez, "No prob!"

apt-get install exim
[configure exim to only accept connections from the local net]
[point Netscape at 192.168.0.1 as the outgoing SMTP server]

Problem solved! Given the proposed solutions on the msu.misc site, this
beats them all.

I love linux! (Or *BSD or anything that allows this flexibility...)

Oh, and this isn't just an idle "I love linux" post... for anybody else on
the list new to linux and suffering from the same problem, be aware that you
can set up outgoing SMTP mail on your linux box relatively easily, and thus
regain full outbound mail control. Just make sure your ISP can't see the
server (if you have a home network especially). (This may still technically
be a violation, but if they can't see it, and nobody else can see it, it's
hardly a mail server, is it?)

Exim was fairly easy to set up (esp. with Debian).  You probably don't want
to do incoming mail (unless you have a your ISP doesn't ban mail servers,
which most do).

In fact, if you read the headers of this message, you should see that it's
working that way for me now. :-)