Re: [Evolution] firewall issues blocking smtp port 25

[Raul Acevedo <raul cantara com>]

Ah, I use a self-signed cert so I had to tell Evolution to accept it
anyway.  But I like your solution, it's good to know.  Thanks!

Raul

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 23:36 +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote:
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> Hi
>
> On 17.07.2007 17:35, Raul Acevedo wrote:
> > That's pretty much what I'm doing... (-L 25:mailhost:25).
> So whats your problem then?
>
> >  What's wrong with that black magic? Seems to work well so far... What would be the
> > alternative and why is it better?
>
> The problem will be, that your email client thinks it connects to
> localhost, although it connects to mailhost. You will get into trouble
> if you want to do SSL because your client will find a certificate signed
> to the wrong hostname.
>
> The alternative would be, as I stated, to proxy your traffic through a
> proxy.
>
> Regards,
>   Muelli
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