Re: sending mail (!) thru ssh

[David Hedbor <david@hedbor.org>]

Stefan Waldherr <swa@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> 
>   Kai> You can set the variable sendmail-program to a program that
>   Kai> does what you want.
> 
> Neato. But what is this program supposed to do? It should ssh to the
> machine at the university and establish a connection between my home
> machine and the SMTP port of the mail server (that I can only reach
> on-campus). Am I right here? Is there a script/program out there that
> can do this?

If you don't mind some manual work, why not start something like this
from a shell:

	ssh -L25:campus.mail.server:25 campus.machine

And then simply set

	(setq smtpmail-smtp-server "localhost")
	(setq smtpmail-smtp-service "smtp")

If you want, you could use a non-standard port number too. This is how 
I do all my tunneling.


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