Re: pre-connect and smtp ?

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Mon, 20 August 11:59 christophe barbé wrote:

> > I agree that port forwarding can be started outside the program entirely.
> > Since this involves no code changes to balsa or libESMTP and Un*x
> > provides
> > the nuts and bolts to do it I feel this is the way to implement this
> > feature
> > for those who need it.  I still urge against it though.
> 
> How can we initiate port forwarding outside of balsa.

ssh -L 12345/host.example.org/587

That will connect sockets opened on localhost:12345 to host.example.org:587

Brian Stafford