relaying my own mail through my own server

[Emma Jane Hogbin <emmajane@xtrinsic.com>]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to figure out exactly what kind of work would be needed to
allow myself to relay mail through my new server. Right now I'm
portforwarding through another server using:
	ssh -L 8025:localhost:25 mail.domain.com
and a minor fix locally to postfix to relay mail through
	relayhost=[127.0.0.1]:25

The server is running Debian stable with postfix and SSH. I've tried 
looking through a number of other documents, but I'm just getting turned 
around. Out of the following, is there any one specific set up that is 
recommended?
	
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=94312
	http://buffy.riseup.net/software/postfix.txt
	http://www.metaconsultancy.com/whitepapers/smtp.htm#s6
	http://www.trilug.org/~jeremy/mail-notes.txt

I think it's the concept of authentication that I'm getting confused by.
If I'm SSHing into the box to do port forwarding (as above), what kind of
authentication am I doing?

thanks,
emma

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