On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 01:19:21PM -0300, Carlos A P Gomes wrote: | * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [25-05-2002 13:03]: | > It's possible. What are you trying? | > | > I think there are 2 ways of doing this : | > 1) ssh to the box and run a mua there. This is no different from | > sitting at the machine's console. (this is what I do since I | > use a curses MUA in the first place) | > | > 2) use an ssh to tunnel SMTP traffic and thus the MTA sees a TCP | > connection from the loopback interface. | | I use my notebook everywhere and sometimes connect it to internet with | dial up or non trusted LAN.
| I'd like to let exim queue every mail I | write and only try to send them when I bring the ssh-tunnel up and | execute something like exim -q. Set 'queue_only' in /etc/exim/exim.conf and exim will only queue messages. You can then tell it to flush the queue on the command line. (also tweak /etc/cron.d/exim to your liking) | My problem is that I couldn't make exim | believe that a local port is the remote relay host. I tryied to | configure exim with the option 2 at eximconfig (remote relay host) and use | localhost:ssh_redirected_port as my smart host but It sends me a mail | saying that localhost is a local address and doesn't deliver the message :( Yeah, exim won't kill itself by trying to deliver remote messages to itself. (inifinte recursion) Some versions of Lotus Domino would do that, though :-) (http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2001/08/msg00289.html). I'm not 100% positive, but I don't think you can force exim to make a remote SMTP connection to the local machine. You can setup exim to use SMTP TLS, though. Install the 'exim-tls' package, generate a certificate for your site, and check out chapter 38 (Encrypted SMTP connections using TLS/SSL) in spec.txt (found in the doc directory). HTH, -D -- Who can say, "I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin"? Proverbs 20:9 GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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