blocked SMTP port issue...

[flip@meteu.octoraro.org]

Have an interesting question here....

I live in On-Campus housing at RIT...my machine is on the Residential
Networks with a full time net connection.  Some time ago, RIT decided
that it would be a good idea if they were to block off all SMTP
connections to machines on the Residential Netowrk.  I've talked to
people about this, and I can't say that I find this completley
unreasonable.  But that doesn't mean that I don't want to get around
it... :)

I'm currently pulling mail down to my machine via fetchmail and dealing
with it normally from there (they don't block outgoing mail ports...).
However, I'd like to be able to deliver mail to other accounts,
majordomo lists, etc.  

I've talked to the fellow who administers the "octoraro.org" domain (my 
machine's got a name on that domain...) and he's willing to apply whatever 
fix I come up with, but I've got to figure it all out... :)

My machine is a Potato setup running smail as the mail deamon.  I have
no particular attachment to smail.  The upstream server is running
RedHat and Sendmail.  He does have an attachment to that particular
deamon.  

Is there some way that either : 
I can have smail listen to a different port (no problem) and somehow
direct incoming traffic to that port instead of port 25?  (and not from
my machine....)
OR
have the upstream server bundle all mail for meteu into one
/var/spool/mail file which I can grab via fetchmail and redistribute
locally?

I've heard that IP tunneling may also provide a way around this, but
I've not found any HOWTOs on IP tunneling...

Thanks,
 - flip

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