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qmail over ssh? (fwd)




ooooh... I can't wait to install Qmail :-) looks like a lot of good things
are still hiding underground!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 11:17:50 -0600
From: cwg@DeepEddy.Com
To: djb-qmail@koobera.math.uic.edu, ssh@clinet.fi
Cc: cwg@DeepEddy.Com
Subject: qmail over ssh?

Has anybody looked into sending mail over ssh using qmail?

I have two qmail sites (my own, and a client site), and just for the sake of 
paranoia, I'd like to encrypt email between them.

Here's what I'm thinking might work:

1) Generate a passwordless ssh key for alias@sendinghost

2) Put that key in receivinghost:~alias/.ssh/authorized_keys

3) Put recieving.com:recieving in sendinghost:/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains

4) Put "|ssh receivinghost /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject" in sendinghost:~alias/
.qmail-receiving

Would this work?  Would this be secure?  What would happen if recievinghost 
were down?

Chris

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