Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 15:02:40 -0300 From: Adrian Mugnolo <adrianm@yahoo-inc.com> To: Donald Burr of Borg <dburr@borg-cube.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SMTP AUTH support in sendmail? Message-ID: <20020909150240.A2427@jazz.ar.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020907142455.P72460-100000@borg-cube.com>; from dburr@borg-cube.com on Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 02:35:00PM -0700 References: <20020907142455.P72460-100000@borg-cube.com>
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Hi, I've found that using an ssh(1) tunnel for both SMTP and IMAP/POP is a better solution overall. The relaying problem gets solved and additionally you get *real* security in your email reading too. If you're using Windows on your laptop (can't blame you -- I do), you can try PuTTY, "a free Win32 Telnet/SSH client", that has port forwarding capabilities: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Let me know if you need help setting up an ssh(1) tunnel. HTH Regards > Recently I had a bit of a dilemma. I went away for vacation, but > of course I wanted to keep in touch with my e-mail, so I brought my > laptop along. Reading mail was no problem -- I have POP3 and IMAP > daemons running. But SENDING mail on the other hand... I'd rather > use my SMTP server, rather than my dialup ISP's, for various reasons. > And, of course, sendmail is configured by default to NOT allow > relaying. Now, to get it to work, I could add the domain of my ISP's > dialup pool to /etc/mail/relay-domains (e.g. pool.dialup.isp.com) but > that means that every yokel who has an account at my ISP will now be > able to relay through my server. This is BAD. So my workaround was > to insert just the IP address of my connection in the relay-domains > file. This of course was a real pain, because it required me to ssh > in and edit the file each time my IP changed (i.e. each time I lost > my dialup connection, which was quite often, in my case... bad phone > lines where I was staying at). [...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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