Re: [Evolution] firewall issues blocking smtp port 25

[Raul Acevedo <raul cantara com>]

That's pretty much what I'm doing... (-L 25:mailhost:25).  What's  
wrong with that black magic?  Seems to work well so far... What would  
be the alternative and why is it better?  Thanks!

Raul

On Jul 17, 2007, at 8:13 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote:

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> Hi.
>
> On 17.07.2007 08:29, Raul Acevedo wrote:
> > Well, I'm using the ssh port forwarding, though it's not necessary to
> > use SOCKS, I just use ssh -L.
> This is possible of course, but you will then have serious problems at
> least with SSL.
>
> >  I was hoping to have it configurable via
> > evolution so I don't have to run a separate shell just for the ssh  
> > command.
> If you have a local port forward enabled, say like
>  ssh -L2525:mailhost:2525 -L1100:pophost:110 sshhost
>
> you can configure evolution to use localhost:2525 as SMTP or
> localhost:110 as POP3 host. This works, but as I said, this is very
> black magic which I don't recommend.
>
> Cheers,
>   Muelli
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