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Send mail from outside a firewalll via Mail.app
Authored by: n9yty on Aug 29, '03 12:22:32PM

Dumb question, but how is this radically different from stunnel? I suppose it's largely the authentication, but otherwise isn't this essentially the same?



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Authored by: nyarlathotep on Aug 31, '03 11:34:46AM

I'm the author of this hint and I'd consider stunnel to be a better solution, but using stunnel requires either (a) having some clout with the sysadmin on your mail system or (b) configuring complex user space daemons on your mail system (difficult to maintain). The authentication for this method is marginally "better" as ssh public-keys and an ssh-agent should be way more secure then Mac's keychains database if your laptop gets stolen or gets a password sniffing virus, but lets be honest with ourselves, those are rediculously obscure situations.. and do not warent any aditional work to prevent.



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