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. :) -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx It's time to boot, do your boot ROMs know where your disk controllers are?
