I find myself in Germany, dialling up through Earthlink’s international roaming service. They’ve got smtp config issues. The international smtp host (ismtp.earthlink.net) won’t relay to any address except those @earthlink.net. Further, any outbound packets on Port 25 that aren’t going to *.earthlink.net are blackholed.

It goes without saying that:

• Earthlink email support hasn’t gotten back to me
• Earthlink chat support is busied out
• Earthlink phone support is available only through a North-America-only 800 number

I think I can do some kind of mojo where I tunnel my smtp connection to well.com on a port other than 25, then redirect to smtp.well.com:25, using ssh.

I am, however, an ssh idiot. I’ve been trying to decipher the ssh man for the past hour, without any luck.

Would some savvy Unix-head please take pity on me and give me step-by-step instructions for making this work? Link Discuss