Speaking of mail etc

[konrad at figment.math.uno.edu (Konrad)]

Why not use POP3/IMAP/sendmail with SSL instead of creating the SSH
tunnel?

On 25 Jul 2003, John Abreau wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 15:06, Ryan L. Kitchen wrote:
> 
> >     As a noob and Lurker of BLU, I am required to ask the obvious:
> > What do people who are on Blu use for their MTA and server?  I am in
> > the process of setting up CYRUS IMAP and Postfix, but I am diffident.
> 
> I receive my mail from a co-located server and use fetchmail over an 
> ssh tunnel to bring it into my mail server at home. My home mailserver 
> uses a second ssh tunnel to relay outbound mail through the co-located 
> server. 
> 
> My home mailserver runs Redhat8. I use the supplied imapd (recompiled 
> to use pine's "mail" directory instead of the user's home directory 
> for the mailbox root) with a number of imap mail clients, including 
> Ximian Evolution on Linux, Apple Mail on MacOSX, and Squirrelmail 
> when I'm on the road. I only allow ssh from outside, so to use 
> Squirrelmail, I set up an ssh tunnel to my home mailserver. If 
> I'm on a Windows box, I'll download and install PuTTY, then use 
> that to create the ssh tunnel. 
> 
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