ssh tunneling of email
On a Debian mailing list someone claimed that it was inconvenient to use ssh tunneling for sending and receiving email due to the issue of broken connections.
On my source-dump blog I have posted an entry with xinetd configuration for doing this in a reliable manner.
4 comments:
anything against tsocks?
Only that it doesn't support a ssh server and ssh pass-phrase authentication, and that it's not designed for tunneling a single application connecting to a single server and leaving everything else in the default mode of operation.
It just doesn't do what is required in this case.
Usually it only a problem to send mail.
I use this tip to sendmail in that case.
Do ssh fail with broken connection? I really want that applications will follow the networks/OSI layers, thus I want that programs implements internally session/application level and they don't rely on transmission. This would simplify the problems with NAT and firewall failures (mainly the home-side hardware).
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