Re: pre-connect and smtp ?

[christophe barbe <christophe barbe ml online fr>]

Yes as Melanie said it, It's not really about encryption it's more about
port forwarding.

The use I have in mind is the following: 
You've an account on a machine with an associated mail account. You can
only use this account on local. You set up a ssh port forwarding with a
pre-connect script and then you can use it as a local one. You use the same
mechanism to login on your remote account and to set up your port
forwarding. With ssh-agent this is a very appealing solution. 

btw I can't follow you on MTA and encryption. I've not enough knowledge in
this domain but I'm not sure to be able to set up a ssmtp config. 

But I can't agree that ssh doesn't provide you real privacy. If you use a
machine on a local network, everybody (with local root access) can easily
spy you (he only needs to set his network interface in promiscuous mode).
With port forwarding you secure your data up to a outside network where
data becomes more difficult to gather.

A normal user can't set up a private port forwarding in inetd (or i'm wrong
?). 
Under balsa we only need (in send.c) to execute (blindly) the pre-connect
command at the process_queue beginning.

Christophe

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