On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:38:16PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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) > - -- > Alan Chandler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9xtq4uFHxcV2FFoIRAjVcAJ4mA7v+RnW0pWO0L5OTWeUAYd9jtgCeOAQg > MsLCZl/nFe1PKCYWKrdYFYk= > =ja+y > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
I could, but part of why I want to do this is so my friends can have email accounts, and most of them don't know about linux or putty.exe. They'd say "thats a lotta work to just to get email..." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
