+++ Payal Rathod [2003-10-28 10:02:02]:
> Hi,
> I have a couple of accounts with ISP like hotpop, softhome etc. which
> provides me POP3 accounts only. Now the password is passed in plain
> text. Can I establish a tunnel through which I can send the
> password in encrypted format? Please remember I do not have any kind of
> shell access on the remote machine. Also, if I create the tunnel can I
> use my mail agent like Kmail or Netscape Mail to use it?
ssh -C -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] -L 11110:softhome.net:110 sleep 100
( -C enables compression and is optional)
this would tunnel softhome.net:110 to localhost:11110 for a period of
100 seconds.(the connection should be established within 100secs.. if the
tunnel is in use it's *not* torn down at the end of 100 secs)
If you drop the "sleep 100" part completely.. you'll be logged onto the
remote machine(myshell.com) and the tunnel will be running as long as you are
logged on.
In your mail client set the pop3 server to be localhost:11110
localhost <----------->myshell.com<------------>softhome.net
encrypted clear-text
If you are using fetchmail.. you can use the "preconnect" option to establish
an ssh tunnel before fetching the mail.
Kingsly
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