Re: [Evolution] Q: How to access mail server behind firewall with ssh?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

If you're already using ssh, it should be trivial:

ssh -Lport:remotehost:143 ...login stuff

That will forward connections to the local port of 'port' to the
'remotehost' port 143 (imap).

Then you just setup your local mail configuration to use localhost:port


On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 12:00, Andrew Bainbridge-Smith wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> A little background in order to pose my question.  I use evolution on my
> work machine via IMAP to the corporate Exchange servers.  The
> corporation firewalls, however, blocks the IMAP ports on the exchange
> servers to the internet and dialup connections.  I would like to read my
> email at home (using evolution) and I connect to my internal work
> machine using ssh.  Obviously the internal machine can access the
> exchange servers and I store most of my mail in local folders on this
> machine.
>
> My question is: "Is there a straight forward way of accessing my local
> mail boxes and is there a way of accessing the exchange IMAP server?" 
> The one restriction is that "only when hell freezes over" will corporate
> IT allow IMAP connection from my dialup home connection.
>
> Thanks in advance for all suggestions,
>       Andrew
> -- 
> Dr Andrew Bainbridge-Smith
> Senior Research Engineer 
> Machine Vision Group
> CSIRO Manufacturing Science and Technology
> Australia
>
>
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