Hi,
I try to use $tunnel with $smtp_url, but can't manage to do it.
I don't trust my wifi Internet connection, so I want my mail to pass
through a ssh tunnel to a server I own, before reaching the smtp server.
ME ---(smtp inside ssh)---> my_server ---(smtp)---> smtp_server.
I don't own smtp_server (in fact it is gmail).
For incoming mail, I've added a plugin line in my fetchmailrc and it's
perfect :
poll imap.gmail.com with proto IMAP timeout 20
plugin "ssh my_server nc %h %p"
user "me" there is ...
So fetchmail launches ssh to my_server, then nc (netcat) remotely. nc
connects to the imap server (%h:%p), sends what it gets on stdin and
writes to its stdout what the imap server answers. I guess it goes back
to fetchmail the same way, using ssh' stdin and stdout.
I'm trying to do it for outgoing mail, and I want to use mutt (because
$smtp_url depends on hooks, and I want to deal with it inside mutt).
I've found the tunnel variable, but can't make it work as I'd like.
« Setting this variable will cause mutt to open a pipe to a command
instead of a raw socket. You may be able to use this to set up
preauthenticated connections to your IMAP/POP3/SMTP server. Example:
set tunnel="ssh -q mailhost.net /usr/local/libexec/imapd" »
I can't use ssh to connect to the smtp server (since it's gmail).
I have smtp_url=smtps://"m...@gmail.com"@smtp.gmail.com:465 and
smtp_pass defined (works fine when connecting directly).
I tried setting tunnel="ssh my_server nc smtp.gmail.com 465", but it
doesn't work and I don't manage to find why. The only thing I can see is
that a ssh connection is opened and data is sent. I also tried smtp
instead of smtps, but it doesn't work either.
How does $tunnel work? Is $smtp_url ignored when $tunnel is set?
