[plug] Debian, fetchmail, ssh port forward

[Onno Benschop]

Hi all,

My reading of the documentation suggests that I can setup a preconnect 
line that sets up port forwarding so fetchmail can connect to a local 
port and end up at the remote server across an ssh tunnel. This is all fine.

Here's where I come unstuck:

    ssh is setup with a key pair, to allow passwordless login. How do I
    get fetchmail to use my keys?


Bear in mind that fetchmail runs as the fetchmail user and I'm 
suspecting it wouldn't be a great idea to copy my keys into the 
/var/run/fetchmail/.ssh directory.

How am I supposed to do this?

    Also, how do I tear down the tunnel after we're done with a mail poll?



Cheers,

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