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Authored by: etrepum on May 07, '02 05:59:58PM

I use SSH port forwarding to do this, my mail server doesn't support SSL, but I can ssh tunnel to it since I have a physical account on the machine, which is at least as secure.

sudo ssh -L 25:yourmailserver:25 someuser@somehostyoucansshto

Technically you can have a "loopback" tunnel, by sshing to localhost (127.0.0.1) but then you don't get the added bonus of having an encrypted channel. Obviously using the actual mailserver as your ssh target is best, but at least you can get it safely out of your dialup or LAN even if you have to use an alternate target (other than localhost).



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*sigh* Still no joy here...
Authored by: bsd on May 18, '02 10:29:58PM

Please submit this as a tip. It'd be really helpful.

I can't exactly follow it, though. Can you clarify which host runs the ssh forwarding, and which hosts are named in the mail.app account?



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