> All I do is: > > sudo ssh -L 25:mailhub:25 username@your_server > > And then, configuring 'localhost' as my smtp server on port 25 gets my mail > sent directly forward through the SSH link.
Ahh, you left out a key piece of information: Postfix is *not* running on your local host. Instead, you are setting up an ssh port forward to the mail server where postfix is running. Perhaps that server uses this as a form of authentication/security - if you have been instructed to do this by the admins, maybe they're using this as a way to allow people who have ssh login accounts (and thus the ability to create these ssh port tunnels) to submit mail as if it were submitted from the local host. Because of this unusual setup, you can't use mutt's default, because that would try to deliver mail using the mail server on your actual local host. So now your question makes sense. You need mutt to send mail via the ssh tunnel; you cannot submit it locally, because that remote server running postfix would never see it if you did so. -- Cos
