How about setting up SMTP AUTH over TLS? This is pretty simple (at least
with sendmail) and you don't need to fiddle with SSH for sending mail.
Don't we have a full fledged Java based mail server in the ASF? ;-)
(ducks, runs)
Regards
Henning
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:25, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> Joshua and Joerg said you can just send mail as whomever you like through
> your local SMTP relay; and while that's usually true, some conservative
> sysadmins will only allow relaying through of mail claiming to be from a
> particular sender domain; furthermore it's becoming more common for port
> 25 outgoing to be filtered when coming from "untrusted" networks.
>
> Therefore, you have one other option involving SSH, but allowing you to
> use your local mail client. Minotaur.apache.org is configured to allow
> SMTP relaying via the localhost interface. So what you do is set up an
> SSH tunnel that connects your own localhost port X (X can be any value
> above 1024) to minotaur's localhost port 25; then in your mail client
> configuration, you set your SMTP server to be "localhost", port X. When
> you send a message, your mail client will connect to localhost:X, relayed
> over your SSH connection to localhost:25 on minotaur. I do this, though
> not with apache.org's server.
>
> In a similar way, you can use the POP service that runs on minotaur's
> localhost interface. Tunnel to localhost:110.
>
> Brian
>
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Phil Steitz wrote:
> > Apologies if the answer to this question is obvious and I have just not
> > stumbled on it; but I am having a hard time "legally" sending mail from
> > my apache email address. Short of logging in to minotaur via ssh and
> > using pine, I know of no authenticated way to do this. I can't seem to
> > connect my Mozilla mail client via SMTP. From the headers on mails from
> > this and other apache lists, it looks like some folks are just modifying
> > the headers. I can set up my local sendmail to push [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > but that seems bogus to me. Even when I send from minotaur, the headers
> > don't look right. Can someone give me a clue? What do other people do?
> > Is there a doc on this somewhere?
> >
> > Phil
> >
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