Networking problem

[JD]

On 05/21/11 13:24, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 05/21/2011 01:05 PM, JD wrote:
>> Well, I do not need a mail server. I would have to fight with
>> at&t to open up port 25 for me.
> No you wouldn't.  You'd tell sendmail to use the AT&T mail server as a
> smarthost and pass all of your outgoing mail through it.  I know,
> because I have a cron job that sends email to a certain site once a week
> and when Verizon closed Port 25 I learned how to get sendmail working as
> above.  It's not hard to do; in fact, getting the instructions in a form
> that somebody who's not a sendmail guru can follow was the hardest part.
I can configure sendmail to run with some specific smarthost.
That is my main problem.
It is that I have no domain name nor a public mx record,
and even if I did, I would have to deal with all the spam :)