Mail fetching problem

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 09:38, Roger Grosswiler wrote:

> another possibility would be, to create a ssh-tunnel on you local 
> machine to the mailserver, creating an account in your mailclient 
> pointing to pop on localhost, this connection would be forwarded to your 
> mailserver, then.
> 
> The forwarding via ssh to the mailserver you would do like:  ssh -L 
> 110:yourmailserver:110
> 
> Only disadvantage would be, that you always would need an opened 
> ssh-connection to your mailserver, if you pick your e-mails. Advantage: 
> you send/receive all data by a secured connection ;-)

Except most companies and institutions with properly setup firewalls
will block all ssh traffic in and out.  This is done to protect the
network from someone opening up a connection into the network that can
tunnel any kind of protocol they want. 

You are correct, it is a good way to encrypt all your data and have a
secured connection.  But most likely they will have blocked this.  If
not a port scan of their routers should prove interesting.  :)


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