Bill Moseley: > > When I'm away from my home lan I create an ssh tunnel from localhost > port 2525 to port 25 on my mail machine so sending mail still works. > That also means I have to update my exim.conf file's smarthost setting > to deliver all mail to localhost:2525.
IMHO a good idea. I tunnel almost everything even in my LAN. It's
wireless and to satisfy my paranoia I feel better encrypting everything.
> Is anyone doing something in a similar way, yet automated -- or
> perhaps has a better suggestion?
Why not use the tunnel exclusively? That way you don't have to change
your MTA's configuration per network.
> I haven't looked at it yet, but I suppose SMTP AUTH or some other
> authentication method would be less work when connecting from
> different locations.
I already found it quite hard to set up Postfix (and Exim) for SMTP AUTH
as a client. The SSH option appeared straight forward to me once I had
understood the whole concept of SSH tunneling.
J.
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