On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:06:38PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 11:08:40PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > | I'm in the process of setting up port forwarding to bypass my spam-crazy > | ISP. I've got everything working, but I'd like to try putting the port > | forwarding information into .fetchmailrc. > | > | Right now I run from the command line: > | ssh my.mail.host -L 8025:localhost:25 > | works great. Except I now have a terminal window that I can't close. > > Unless you background it :-).
Tried that, it kills the process. > This part I don't understand. fetchmail isn't related to outgoing > smtp at all. It is only for retrieving mail from an existing pop/imap > mailbox. <snip> > If you want to tunnel the POP connection, you need to tell fetchmail > to connect to the local end of the tunnel. For example, this works : Ahh. I misunderstood what I was reading on the HOWTO I found. I won't want it for the incoming mail (although it might be a good idea as well), I really do want it for my outgoing mail so that I can avoid using my ISP as an SMTP server. > Use public key authentication. PubkeyAuthentication is part of ssh > and not directly related to fetchmail, which is why you won't find an > explanation of it in fetchmail docs. Look for ssh docs to find info. ok, thanks. -- Emma Jane Hogbin [[ 416 417 2868 ][ www.xtrinsic.com ]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
