On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 17:30:12 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > I've been trying to solve this for about three years now. Every few > months, when I have a moment, I try again. It is not a specifically > debian issue, but someone here must have a similar setup. > > I have an IMAP server on a remote vm. I access it with mutt because it > sucks least. But when I want to send mail, I have to open a webmail > interface (squirrel as it happens) because that way I am logged on to > the server, and not blocked from sending. I send from the server via > the supplier's smarthost, which obviously will not relay for me from any > other IP. Similarly my vm will not relay from wherever I happen to be > so I cannot use mutt on my local machine to send. > > I have tried repeatedly to set up some sort of secure logon for the mutt > connection to courier IMAP, but I do not understand the technology, and > following various step-b-step guides has always failed with an error > not predicted in the guide. I gather something called TLS is needed. > Perhaps there are other ways. Perhaps I should try a different > combination on the server than the default exim4 + courier IMAP. Can > anybody advise me how to proceed?
Can you log in on the vm via ssh? Is a sendmail-equivalent command available to you there? There are various tricks that can be played with ssh tunneling and/or with remotely running sendmail via ssh. (I'll be happy to provide more details if an ssh-based approach is feasible for you.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
