On Sunday 05 December 2004 21:26, Jim Higson wrote: > 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. Something like ssh -L1110:pop3.example.edu:110 example.edu then collect your mail from localhost port 1110. For more:- man ssh -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/