How to fetchmail from ISP-b using SSH when ISP-a has socks?

[Robert Cymbala <cymbaLa@lafn.org>]

My remote provider (ISP-b) has enabled SSH on my account, but am still
getting "secure connection... refused".  What can I try next?

My local provider (ISP-a) is www.lafn.org that I use to dial-up (uses
a socks proxy "proxy.lafn.org:1080"). Fetchmail gets email from
mail.lafn.org using POP without a problem.

ISP-b also has POP email.  I'm attempting to use fetchmail to get that
mail too.

I've tried this in .fetchmailrc (the real password will work using
WebMail through a browser; I can see email):

 defaults
 user cymbala is cymbala
 no rewrite
 poll localhost with protocol pop3 and port 11110:
 preconnect "ssh -C -f cymbala@redpraxis.org -L 11110:redpraxis.org:110 sleep 5"
 password Password;

Result: "secure connection... refused" and "fetchmail: pre-connection
command failed with status 256"

I've tried doing that ssh command by itself at a Bash prompt that
started using ssh-agent:

 - used ssh-keygen to make a key.
 - ssh-agent bash
 - echo "keyPassword" | ssh-add -p
 - ssh -C -f ... ...
 - SAME RESULTS: "secure connection... refused."

Help, please!  Here's an email from ISP-b:

------- Start of forwarded message -------
Envelope-to: cymbala@localhost
From: Christopher Joyce <cjoyce@CyberTitanNetwork.com>
To: Robert Cymbala <cymbaLa@lafn.org>
Subject: Re: fetchmail on Debian GNU/Linux
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 13:56:52 -0700
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X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by zoon.lafn.org id f5NKopl51492
X-UIDL: C>%#!!f5!!(BX"!_0b"!

Hello Robert,

I have enabled SSH on your account.  Please give the server about ten minutes to process the request
and give it another try.

Thanks,
Chris

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Cymbala" <cymbaLa@lafn.org>
To: <cjoyce@cybertitannetwork.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: fetchmail on Debian GNU/Linux


> 
> Chris:
> 
> Ignoring the fetchmail part for now, I tried this command from the
> root prompt on my GNU/Linux laptop.  It's the command from
> "preconnect" from the example you emailed:
> 
>  ~# ssh -C -f cymbala@redpraxis.org -L 11110:redpraxis.org:110 sleep 5
> 
> ...and got "secure connection... refused":
> 
>  Secure connection to redpraxis.org refused; reverting to insecure method.
>  Using rsh.  WARNING: Connection will not be encrypted.
>  /usr/bin/rsh: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> I read somewhere that sshd is _required_ to run on the remove POP3
> mail server.  Is sshd running on redpraxis.org ??
> 
> -Robert
------- End of forwarded message -------