[olug] Clear-Text Proxies

[troehr at nj-onramp.com]

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Tom Roehr

Quoting Mike Hostetler <hostetlerm at gmail.com>:

> I have an odd situation maybe you can shed light on.
> 
> We have port 25 filtered out at the router-level (our IT's response to
> when we got hit by NetSky).  This is a pain when you create products
> that can send email and you want to test them out.  I have one machine
> (Linux, of course) that has permission to send mail but many other
> machines that I would like to use to send mail
> 
> This is what I would like to do -- send mail to a non-used port on the
> local machine and have that automagically forwarded to the Linux (i.e.
> trusted) box.  I know about ssh tunnels, but I can't connect to port
> 25 on my linux box.  I know about stunnel, but the data needs to be
> encrypted before it gets to stunnel, so I need to run something that
> encrypts it before it get to stunnel.
> 
> But I don't need encryption -- all this stuff is behind a firewall.  I
> just want all data from one port to be automatically sent to another. 
> Does anyone know of a piece of software that will do this?  Does
> anyone have a better idea?
> 
> -- mikeh
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