Question about setting up email

[Buddy Brannan]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:44:42PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Fedora comes out of the box with outbound mail working.

Technically true, but if you're on an ISP with a pool of dynamic IP
addresses (which is likely), it's also likely that there are mail
servers that will not take mail that shows as originating from your
dynamic IP's mail server. (Yes, this happened to me once.) Therefore,
you'll have to set up sendmail (or postfix, or exim, or...) to act as
a smarthost client; that is, relay Email to your ISP's mail
server. (This is even aside from the issue of many ISP's blocking port
25.) 

BTW, I did it with postfix, and finding easy-to-understand
instructions (because I'm none too bright) was a little challenging,
but I managed it, eventually. 
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