Hi Worked like a charm! Thought I'd also report that it worked with Plink (from the same people that make Putty), using the same command line options. Unfortunately I also need to keep a command window open with the connection, tried several options but looks like that's the way it works.
Roberto Wednesday, August 6, 2003, 11:34:54 AM, you wrote: DK> Wednesday, August 6, 2003, 11:10:24 AM, Roberto wrote: R>> That sounds cool! How did you get to the poing where you are R>> at right now? Is there documentation on how to do this? DK> Here's an overview for setting up TB! to tunnel SMTP via ssh. DK> First, let me start with why someone might do this: DK> 1. Security - all traffic between the mail host and the server DK> will now be encrypted with strong encryption. Caveat - once DK> it is on the server, it is no longer encrypted. Using SSH is DK> not a replacement for PGP. DK> 2. Firewall or other block - if a firewall will not allow traffic DK> through port 25 (or other ports), but does allow ssh you can DK> use ssh's port forwarding feature to tunnel the desired ports DK> over the permitted ssh port. DK> 3. Compression - ssh also supports compressing the traffic that DK> goes over it. I'm not using this, but it may be of interest to DK> someone on a dial-up or bandwidth limited connection. DK> Here's how I got to where I am right now.... DK> Base assumptions about my situation that might not be typical for DK> others: DK> 1. I have cygwin installed with the OpenSSH package included DK> 2. My e-mail provider allows telnet/ssh access DK> Both of the above are needed. #1 is easy to get www.cygwin.com. I DK> doubt that #2 is in common use. DK> Given the two items above: DK> 0. Open a cygwin window DK> 1. Confirm your ssh connection works: DK> $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] DK> <give password when asked> DK> yourhost $ <command line prompt available> DK> <exit after confirmed> DK> 2. Set up a tunnel session with your host: DK> $ ssh -lyourname -L 25:localhost:25 yourhost.com DK> <give password when asked> DK> 3. In TB!, change Account!Properties!Transport!SMTP Server DK> to localhost (leave port at 25) DK> Send an e-mail! DK> Now, the remaining issues are: DK> 1. I don't want to keep the ssh tunnel up all the time DK> 2. Given 1, how can I have TB! launch ssh for the e-mails in the DK> Outbox and then close it down when all are sent. DK> 3. Setting up ssh to not ask for a password every time. (I think DK> this can be handled by setting up the key authentication DK> correctly, but that's not a TB! issue.) DK> I hope others find this interesting and useful. -- Roberto Machorro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machorro.net/roberto ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
