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.Paul Howarth wrote:
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 13:26 +0000, Jim Higson wrote:Do they allow perhaps IMAP? Just try to connect on port 143. It's similar to POP, it just leaves all messages on their server and just loads the header. Messages to read will be loaded on demand, this decreases net-traffic. Just try to connect via imap.
At my university they don't allow pop3 access from outside their network, but I can ssh and ftp them. They provide webmail off campus, but I'd much rather use a 'proper' client.
I'm thinking it might be possible to automatically open an ssh connection, call inc on their machine (to transfer the mail to my remote home dir) then use ftp to copy it to my machine.
Before I start hacking it up, has anyone done somthing like this before or know of any prexisting tools?
Are you sure they don't provide pop3s (encrypted pop3, port 995) that you could access from anywhere? If that's available, it could save you some hassle.
Paul.
HTH Roger
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 ;-)
HTH Roger
