On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, P Jones wrote: > OK, this is what I do now, followed by what I would like to do; I > forward ports 80, 25, and 119 on my local server to a remote proxy (a > machine in another part of the country) using ssh. The setup in my > client is to send email to localhost, where it is forwarded by ssh to > the remote proxy. The problem is that in order for this to work I have > to disable sendmail, which means I don't get any logwatch reports in my > root mail. Not sure if what I'm doing makes an sense, it just happens to > work and so it's what I do. > > What I'd like is to be able to have both sendmail and my ssh port > forwarding work. I haven't the foggiest idea how to do it. Could I get > sendmail to route mail destined for outside the local network to port 25 > which is then forwarded to the proxy, and route local mail to the local > address? Any ideas? I'll indicate in postfix terms - it should be similar for sendmail. Instead of doing ssh -L25:remote:25 - do something like -L1025:remote:25 i.e local port 1025 is now the SMTP-forward port. With this - you can run sendmail/postfix on normal port:25 With postfix - you can say: postconf -e relayhost=localhost:1025 i.e pine -> postfix:25 -> localhost:1025 -> remote-host (via ssh) Logwatch mail will be delivered to /var/spool/mail/root the localmachine (uless you modify /etc/aliases in FC3) Satish
