Re: exim mailserver
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On Monday 04 November 2002 7:41 pm, ZZ wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:56:10AM -0500, ZZ wrote:
> > But this is only half of the deal. I can't send email from my email
> > clients because exim rejects the mail, saying it won't relay email. So
> > what I want is to have exim ask for a login password, and if possible do
> > this over an ssl connection too.
...
> Maybe I've figured this out, today I found sslwrap which can ssl-ify my
> smtp connection if I can get that password authentication stuff to work.
> The info in /usr/share/docs/exim/ does talk about it, but not much.
> This would work, but it would allow somone to use the regular clear-text
> smpt port to authenticate with exim. So if someone does not know to use
> the s-smtp port 465 then people could sniff valid logins to MY box. I
> can't shutdown port 25, because then I would not be able to get
> incomming email.
An alternative would be to set up an ssh channel into your exim box from
wherever you are on the net and forward port 25 from your exim box to your
client box.
If the client is a windows machine take a look at putty for the ssh client. (I
just posted a link in another thread - but a google search for putty and I'm
Feeling Lucky gets it straight away)
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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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