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PK SMTP Idea

I love my iBook. My only complaint about it has nothing to do with the fact that it's an iBook, and everything that has to do with it being a laptop. Specifically, it has to do with it being used all over the place, using a variety of service providers for 'net access. The real problem? Sending mail while on the road means figuring out what mail server to use.

Fortunately, Exim supports this lovely feature of doing SMTP Auth and using SSL to encrypt the connection so the world doesn't read what you have to say (ie AUTH data). I'll get around to installing this all this week, but here are some great instructions for doing so.

So, basically it boils down to, I'll have my mail server hanging off the cable modem, which does this secure relaying to Time Warner's central mail server. Now if only all the world did this, we wouldn't have so much freaking spam. Then again, we'd also have absolutely no anonymity.