On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 10:19, John Garmany wrote: > I am looking at ways to both send and retrieve email while traveling. > Since I use hotel internet connections and public wireless connection, I > am looking at a way to secure the connection. My traveling laptop is > windows. > > My idea is this. > > 1. Connect using ssh to the Linux server with a couple of tunnels from > local ports to the mail ports. (25 Sendmail, 143 IMAP, 110 POP3) > 2. Point my email programs (Outlook for work, Thunderbird for > personnel) to the local ports connected to the tunnel > 3. Send and recieve mail. > > This should encrypt the connection for the mail so that no one could > monitor my passwords or read my mail. > > Also Sendmail will see me as a local user (I think) and relay out my mail. > > Has anyone else tried this? Am I missing something. Is there an easier > way. > > When I travel I open the mail ports throught the firewall and they get > hit pretty hard. Average about 50 failed attempts a day at logging on > as different users (nobody, guest, etc). This way I would only need to > open the ssh port. > > John > You're 100% on the money John - I do this all the time and it works great. Curtis
