Re: Secure POP over SSH
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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 - alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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