Hi all,
I've setup a manual ssh tunnel to my university that connects to the imap and smtp ports (if anyone wants to the command line just let me know) and can check that it works by manually telneting into the local ports and interacting with the servers. This works fine for getting mail but when I try to send using Mail.app it says it can't send the mail. I've manually telneted into the local port and used the SMTP protocol to successfully send some mail. I'm pretty sure the problem is the "hello" command in the SMTP protocol. When I send mail manually I have to type in something like "hello myuniversity.edu" where myuniversity.edu should be the same domain as the mailserver is in. I'm guessing Mail.app is, instead, giving the domain name of the domain I'm connecting from. Does anyone know how to check if this is indeed the problem and how I can work around it. I'm sure people have setup Mail.app to work with an SSH tunnel before so I hope there's some kind of a workaround for this.
I've setup a manual ssh tunnel to my university that connects to the imap and smtp ports (if anyone wants to the command line just let me know) and can check that it works by manually telneting into the local ports and interacting with the servers. This works fine for getting mail but when I try to send using Mail.app it says it can't send the mail. I've manually telneted into the local port and used the SMTP protocol to successfully send some mail. I'm pretty sure the problem is the "hello" command in the SMTP protocol. When I send mail manually I have to type in something like "hello myuniversity.edu" where myuniversity.edu should be the same domain as the mailserver is in. I'm guessing Mail.app is, instead, giving the domain name of the domain I'm connecting from. Does anyone know how to check if this is indeed the problem and how I can work around it. I'm sure people have setup Mail.app to work with an SSH tunnel before so I hope there's some kind of a workaround for this.