Re: Gnus silently fails to send imap messages when smtp blocked

ross <at> rosslaird.info (Ross A. Laird) writes:
> Since smtp is blocked on the local machine, I ssh into my remote server.
> I run emacs and gnus from there, but (like emacsclient or tramp) I see
> the application and run it on my local machine. Is that possible?

What I do in that situation is ssh into a machine that has a working
SMTP server, and create a tunnel:

,----
| ssh -L 2525:127.0.0.1:25 -N somehost.com
`----

And then reconfigure Gnus to use port 2525 for SMTP.

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