Re: [Evolution] Forward POP3S Over SSH

["Daniel Vérité" <daniel verite gmail com>]

         Mac McClellan writes

> I'm a contractor at a place that has a locked down network.  The
> only traffic that is allowed out of the network is http, https and
> ssh.    The company I work for has a mail server that uses POP3S (port
> 995).  Its a groupwise server but only has port 995 open to the
> outside world.
>
> I would like to forward port 995 over SSH and bounce it off a Linux
> server I have on the Internet.  I need to know how to set that up and
> what to do with Evolution to configure it to use that tunnel.

To set up the tunnel:
ssh your-linux-box -L2000:your-pop-server:995
And in evolution set POP3S on localhost, port 2000

Best regards,
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Daniel
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