[oclug] secure email

Dan Cardamore dan at hld.ca
Fri Aug 16 14:28:49 EDT 2002


Very cool.  Thanks Kevin.

Dan



On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 11:06:01AM -0400, Kevin Everets wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 09:10:04AM -0400, Chris Church wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > Can someone tell me the easiest way to implement secure smtp and pop3,
> > while using sendmail and not recompiling the kernel to include ipsec and
> > without unplugging the computer and using snail mail. :-)
> 
> The easiest method (especially if you don't have total control of the
> server side), is to use SSH port forwarding.
> 
> ssh -N -L 110:host.org:110 -L 25:host.org:25 host.org
> 
> Then set your mail programs to use "localhost" for your pop3/smtp
> server.
> 
> Kevin.


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