Damon Muller wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:31:17PM -0600, Ken Jones wrote:
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> > Could you post a url to the fetchmail docs on ssh tunnel?
>
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html#K3
>
> > Or better yet post the startup line for tcpserver/vpopmail/ssh tunnel.
>
> It's a per-user thing, not a change to the way the daemon is launched
> (unlike ssl tunnels). What you're essentially doing is opening an
> encrypted SSH shell connection to the mail server, and piggybacking a
> port-forwarding to the pop3 port, via a port on your local machine.
Thanks. I'm reading the url now.
I think I confused it with ssl tunnels.
Does anyone have information on how to run vpopmail with ssl tunnels?
>
> So you poll, say, port 1100 on your machine, which is forwaded over the
> ssh connection to 110 on the remove machine. The catch is that you need
> shell access to the remote machine, and I have no idea how you'd go
> about doing it from a windows machine. However, it certainly does work
> with vpopmail.
>
> > I can add it to the vpopmail FAQ file.
>
> Better add the URL rather than my explanation... It's 32 degrees, I
> don't have air-conditioning, so I'm probably not making much sense! :)
Hehe. I hear yah. I'll add the url.
Ken
>
> cheers,
>
> damon
>
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