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Send mail from outside a firewalll via Mail.app
Authored by: zaphon on Aug 29, '03 10:30:10AM

Or you could actually use the "authentication" feature of outgoing e-mail. This is a much better option from both an end user and server operator point of view (no more of this silly pop before smtp crap needed, nor any need to allow any networks to relay specifically). Combine this with SSL enabled services, and it's all nice and secure as well.

Punching SSH tunnels just seems like a lot of work to solve a problem that can easily be solved by making the server more secure.



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Authored by: nyarlathotep on Aug 31, '03 11:15:46AM

This hint is for people who have no clout with the sysadmin on their mail server, i.e. most of the world. It is exactly this "only one way to do it" philosophy which makes the Mac such a weak system for many purposes.

As someone else mentioned, one can also use this hint to get other protocols working, i.e. you can use IMAP on a system which only supports POP. I'm even considering setting up an LDAP daemon via this trick, but I'm concerned that it willl be slow.



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