[plug] Getting email securely from a US host

[James Bromberger]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:20:21PM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> 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.

You could tell the ISP to pull their finger out and support POPS or IMAPS. 
Same protocol as POP and IMAP, but over SSL. /etc/services sez:

pop3s           995/tcp                         # POP-3 over SSL
imaps           993/tcp                         # IMAP over SSL

First, see if the ISP does suppot these. Try telnetting to the port on 
their pop/imap server. If you get a connection you are half-way there. 
Then check to see if your mail client can support encryption. Mozilla with 
the psm stuff can, but you need to cerate a normal IMAP or POP account first, 
and then go tot he accoutn settings and change this (I have some
bugs open on mozilla about this). Also, MS OE, Evolution, supports 
encryption, and a number of other clients.


  Hope this helps,
    James
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