[H-GEN] SMTP redirect

[Harry Phillips]

Tony Melia wrote:
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> A cheap and nasty way to force it could be to add smtp.kodak.com (or
> whatever) as 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file, and configure your server to
> accept mail for that domain, which should direct the mails to you.
> 

Very cheap, very nasty, and it won't work. I just checked some of the 
headers of test messages I sent and they look like this:

by snj-us-pcwp-708.us.kodak.com (8.11.7p2/8.11.7)
                ^^^
And this:

by snj-us-pcwp-703.kodak.com (8.11.7p2/8.11.7)
                ^^^
To me that looks like at least two different hosts are used to receive 
the mail.

I also thought of something else, they may not even use port 25 on their 
SMTP servers, the software could be set to connect to their servers on 
port 57893 for all I know.

Bugger it I am going to download and install Kerio Personal firewall, 
that will alert me to what host:port the bloody software is trying to use.

-- 
Regards,
Harry Phillips
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