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Comment by Chris Adams:
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Here’s a perl script I use on OS X: http://improbable.org/chris/Software/SecureMail
Note that it relies on having a working ssh-agent (mine is started on login and thus inherited by everything I run) or using a public key w/o password (which is riskier). You’ll have to edit the SSHCMD line at the top to change the ports to forward and the remote systems.
Many protocols work better if you enable compression but that hurts latency for normal shell sessions. I put this in my .ssh/config file so it only applies to the remote webserver (I could do it on the command-line but this way things like my rsync scripts benefit, too):
Host web1.qwknetllc.com User webserveruser IdentityFile ~/.ssh/secret_key Compression yes CompressionLevel 9
Comment by Chris Adams:
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I should also have mentioned that I have a global “KeepAlive yes” and that the way SecureMail does a double-fork() means you can start it from something like FruitMenu or close a terminal window after starting SecureMail without having SecureMail die or go zombie on you.
Comment by ssp:
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I don’t understand all of what you say, but it definitely sounds interesting. What’s the ssh-agent all about? I seem to vaguely remember that it’s different from Bill’s program.
The link you gave, gives 403 Forbidden, btw. Thus I couldn’t simply give your script a try.
