[oclug] secure email

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, 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

This is great if you have two sites you want to pass secure mail between
(which may well fit the original poster's needs) but doesn't scale well as
you need to keep adding forwarding entries for each site you want to pass
secure mail with.  Nice lateral thinking solution though :)

Cheers,
	-Rob

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