On Sat, August 25, 2007 23:27, Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
> In the following I will assume that your ~/.ssh/config is set up such
> that you can use "ssh myvm" to log in on the vm. (This allows me to keep
> the command syntax simple and in any case I think it is a good approach
> in practice.) I would also recommend to set up public key authentication
I have set up the alias for ssh, and created a key for authentication.
> and to use ssh-agent, to avoid having to type your password whenever you
> send mail.
I read the man page for ssh-agent, but am not much the wiser. Still, I
figure I can try without it for now...
> Method 1:
> ---------
>
> You can forward a local port via ssh like this:
>
> ssh -N -L 2525:smtp.smarthost.tld:25 myvm
>
> This command establishes an ssh connection to myvm. Everything that is
> sent to port 2525 on your local computer will be forwarded to myvm and
> then myvm will pass it on to smtp.smarthost.tld, port 25. This is like a
> mini-VPN for only one port; you have to run this command before you send
> mail(s) and you can cancel it (CTRL-C) when you are done. Mutt (or any
> other MUA) on the local computer can now simply be configured to use
> localhost, port 2525 as its smtp server.
I find the whole mail process absurdly confusing, and nobody seems to
have written a lucid explanation of how the bits fit together. I read
mail by connecting to the IMAP server. When I write mail, mutt sends
it to my local sendmail, is that right? And the local sendmail is
specified in ~/.muttrc thus:
set sendmail="/usr/lib/sendmail"
which is really my local exim4. So that needs to be set up to send via
port 2525. How?
Or is that all wrong?
Sorry to be so slow.
--
richard
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