On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 10:56 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: > >Mail server means also SMTP in addition to POP/IMAP. > > *assuming* that this is an MX -- it might be a box at home which is running, > say, fetchmail to the ISPs mailserver, in which case it doesn't need SMTP > open.
If you're reading email, then there's a reasonable chance you'll want to send email, too. And it's nice to have a known SMTP server you can just authenticate with and relay through than have to mess around finding out the details for whichever random network you've plugged your laptop into today. Probably the simplest way is to tunnel imap and smtp over SSH. But, as you've already mentioned, Dovecot with SSL is fairly simple. SSL and authentication with postfix was a little bit more tricky, I thought. But certainly not impossible if you're persistent. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
