-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 December 2001 8:28 pm, Pollywog wrote: > I read the docs at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Secure-POP+SSH.html > and I am wondering whether this approach can work for multiple mailboxes > at one ISP (if I use fetchmail).
Does you ISP allow you to create an SSH tunnel to them - ie has he got a sshd running, and is your public key in his authorised key database. You can't do this unless he has set it up for you to do so. What I am almost sure will happen is > that before the SSH tunnel is disconnected for one mailbox, fetchmail will > try to retrieve mail for the next mailbox. It will if your fetchmailrc contains multiple mailbox polls. The alternative is to run several scripts which run with different fetchmailrc files - each one doing a single poll. I don't want to set up a > different port for each mailbox because I think that would be an abuse of > my ISP. I want fetchmail to use SSH to retrieve mail one mailbox at a > time. > I don' think you can use fetchmail to set up ssh - you have to do it yourself and then setup fetchmail to use it. ssh provides the ability to create a local port which if you connect to, send an encrypted tunnel to a port on a remote machine (the -L option - there is a reverse function with the -R option). You set fetchmail to connect to this local port, and it has infact connected to the remote (pop3) port. - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8HSU71mf3M5ZDr2kRAouoAJ4zR2iZcwUTNyMupoCSKKv8MekjvwCgy9Fh x5WeVG4mLreO4s8WO78sPnY= =oRt0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
