Using Hamster as SMTP server

[Urgje]

Hi,

This question may have been answered more than once already, but being
rather new to these groups, I'll risk asking it again.

Using a local network of six PC's behind an ADSL modem/router/NAT
firewall, I'd like to start using Hamster Playground as SMTP server.
Presently (and for the past two years) I'm using MailEnable as my
mailserver software (locally and for a small number of outside users)
for three domains, but would like to move to Hamster PG.

I've been using the latter happily and successfully to collect news from
a number of servers, and to serve up a few local newsgroups to a small
number of outside users. Recently I've changed my setup to collect the
mail from a number of email addresses through Hamster PG too. All this
has been working quite smoothly.

But setting up Hamster PG as SMTP server locally and for a small number
of outside users, appears to be 'out of my league' for the moment.
Could someone please help me out and tell me how to do that? Routing
incoming traffic to the specific IP address on my local network isn't a
problem.
One last thing: my provider doesn't allow direct SMTP traffic, but
relays it through a server of their own.

Thanks for any help or pointers provided.

[Anthony R. Gold]

Post by Urgje
But setting up Hamster PG as SMTP server locally and for a small number
of outside users, appears to be 'out of my league' for the moment.
Could someone please help me out and tell me how to do that? Routing
incoming traffic to the specific IP address on my local network isn't a
problem.
One last thing: my provider doesn't allow direct SMTP traffic, but
relays it through a server of their own.

You claim to understand port forwarding, so I'll pass by that one.

If your ISP is blocking the SMTP port (TCP 25) to your server then you
will need to bind the server to another - say 2525. But the problem then
becomes be whether your small number of outside users are technically
competent to configure their SMTP clients to send to that port. Almost
all the spam I get comes from users of ISPs which don't block port 25.

Tony