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They're getting closer to public-key authentication, I guess that's good.
by bo1024 8y ago
They're getting closer to public-key authentication, I guess that's good.
- yellowapple 8y agoOoooooo. Is there such a thing as SSMTP/SIMAP (i.e. something that is to SMTP/IMAP as SFTP is to FTP - i.e. an SSH-based thing that sends and/or receives mail to/from a mail server)? It'd be badass to be able to literally just use my SSH keys to authenticate when sending/receiving mail.
- bo1024 8y agoThat does sound perfect. Don't know if it exists.
- defanor 8y agoI'm using a setup similar to the described one, though without SMTP or IMAP: a MUA is set to use `ssh <host> sendmail` instead of a local sendmail, and `doveadm sync sh -c ... "ssh <host> doveadm dsync-server"` for retrieval/synchronization. It's indeed nice and handy. Edit: My setup with mu4e is described in more detail at https://defanor.uberspace.net/notes/email.xhtml https://defanor.uberspace.net/notes/email.xhtml
- hallgnop 8y agoYou can literally invoke imapd over ssh and it will preauthenticate as the user that invoked imapd. I used to do this with PINE 20 years ago. Good luck getting any of the big MSPs to support it, though.
- sevensor 8y agoI used elm back in the day. Was excited and confused when I started seeing all sorts of articles about elm, until I realized it was a different elm.
- yellowapple 8y agoI'll have to give that a whirl. This would be with my own mailserver, so whether or not the MSPs support it is irrelevant :)