They did it again! The network-provider at home (Nexans Distribution Trondheim) shut down _ALL_ SMTP-traffic from the buildingcomplex. How the heck can they do this and not inform the people living here he evow to send email? Do they really believe that everyone uses webmail? I actually prefer IMAP with a reasonable good configured client — Evolution in Gnome, mutt in the shell.

So, what can one do when all your SMTP-connections are shut down? (Port 25 blocked outgoing for the forseable future.) The problem-solver proved to be Tollef, again. This time his very good authenticated email relaying through SMTP-SSL (with configuration examples for Postfix and Exim).

Ofcourse I could set this up at one of my own mailservers with SMTP-auth on some weird port, but why bother just yet when there is such a service available around the corner?

Thank you Tollef!