Stupid question but I was curious. How do you get the uptime info for your signature? Is it configured dynamically or is it a manual process.
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From: Ken Wahl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:30 PM
To: Tom Massey
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] openSSL/stunnel and fetchmail/postfix setup
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Tom Massey wrote:
> Ken Wahl wrote:
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I read "Mail the Unix way" at MandrakeUser.org and set up a
> > postfix/fetchmail/procmail system that works quite nicely but I want to
> > add SSL support. I installed openSSL and Stunnel but am stumped on where
> > to go from here. The man pages for the programs were a little *cryptic*
> > and the software's homepages were not really helpful.
> >
> > What I am trying to do is have fetchmail retrieve my mail from my pop3
> > server at my ISP, and postfix send my mail to the SMTP server at my ISP,
> > using SSL. My ISP does support it according to its webpage.
>
> Have you looked at <http://mandrakeuser.org/secure/sssh5.html>, which
> tells you how to tunnel POP through SSH? Looks like this is the sort of
> thing you're trying to do. You might want to start reading at
> <http://mandrakeuser.org/secure/sssh.html> to get the full picture. I
> haven't been able to set this up, my ISP (university) won't let me, but
> just from looking at the page this would encrypt POP passwords sent to
> your ISP, and also all mail downloaded. I'm not sure about sending mail,
> you might be able to similarly tunnel it through SSH using a command
> something like 'ssh -f -C [EMAIL PROTECTED] -L
> 1234:smtp.yourisp.com:25 sleep 5'. Then you'd have to get Postfix to
> send mail through the SSH tunnel. But actually, I don't know why you'd
> want to send mail in this way - the main purpose of setting up an SSH
> tunnel like this is to encrypt passwords, so unless your ISP requires a
> password for SMTP there's really no need for it. Remember that
> encryption between you and your ISP doesn't carry over into the net - if
> you want to send secure mail (ignoring password issues) you have to use
> PGP or similar to encrypt it anyway. If you want to be *really* secure,
> get rid of PGP and send plain text messages using an unbreakable cipher
> - eg 'I am a pink elephant' == 'Explode everything now, they know our
> plans'. As a completely unrelated aside, I AM A PINK ELEPHANT.
>
> HTH,
> Tom
>
>
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Thanks Tom, that was exactly what I was looking for, and of course it was
right under my nose. I really only need to tunnel POP, now that you
mention it, since the authentication for SMTP is prior retrieval from
POP. However, my ISP's webpage says the SMTP server supports SSH as
well. All I really want is for my POP password to be encrypted between my
box and the server.
And thanks for the Cipher program. I never liked PGP that much
anyway. :-0
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