[plug] Getting email securely from a US host

Russell Steicke r.steicke at bom.gov.au
Tue Oct 30 13:20:21 WST 2001


On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:20:29PM +0800, Harry McNally wrote:
...
> frinstance, is it possible to use fetchmail to ssh into the server and 
> fetch the mail over the ssh session. I haven't set this up on our server 
> yet (POPing using Eudora as you can see) so I don't know enough about what 
> fetchmail can do. A yes will do and I'll squirrel into the man/info/HOW-TO 
> .. otherwise no and I'll keep wondering what to do :)

yes (sort of)

You actually ssh to the server, using the -L option to redirect a local
port over the ssh link to come out the other end.  Then tell your mail
client (or fetchmail) to use POP over that port (instead of the default
TCP port 110 that POP uses.)

The ssh man page is pretty good, and the fetchmail man page is
excellent.

> Harry


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Russell Steicke

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