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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.
Why not use POP3-S (secure POP3) or IMAP-S (secure IMAP)? These are the ~ standard POP3 and IMAP protocols tunneled through an SSL connection. Both Outlook and Thunderbird directly support POP3-S and IMAP-S.
| 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.
POP3-S uses port 995; IMAP-S uses port 993, so whichever you choose you still only need one port open..
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