Re: Remote sendmail via ssh?

bremner <at> unb.ca writes:

>>>>>> "Lloyd" == Lloyd Zusman <ljz <at> asfast.com> writes:
>
>     Lloyd> Is there a way to tell Wanderlust to send outgoing mail via
>     Lloyd> a remote instance of sendmail that is accessed via ssh?  By
>     Lloyd> "remote", I mean that sendmail is running on a host that is
>     Lloyd> different from the one on which Wanderlust is running.
>
> Yes, you should be able to adapt the following:
>
> (defvar db-this-host (getenv "HOST") "Name of current host")
>
> (defun db-exec-string (host cmd)
>   (cond ((string-equal host db-this-host) cmd )
> 	(t (concat "ssh " host " " cmd))))
>
> ;; Smtp via ssh
> (setq smtp-open-connection-function 'smtp-open-shell-stream)
> (setq wl-smtp-posting-server "remotehost.remotedomain")
> (setq wl-smtp-posting-port 25)
>
> (defun smtp-open-shell-stream (name buffer host service)
>   (start-process-shell-command
>     name buffer (db-exec-string host "/usr/sbin/exim4 -bs")))

Thank you!

I forgot to mention that I only want to do this within certain folders,
and in the others, to just send outgoing mail via my standard local smtp
settings.  I suppose that I can control this somehow via the
wl-template-alist mechanism, correct?

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