Re: Secure POP over SSH

[wpmills@Mills-USA.com (W. Paul Mills)]

croak@shadypond.com (Pollywog) writes:

> 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).  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.  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.

Played with this myself just now. It appears that if you use the
same local port, the second will wait on the first, but it will
complain each time and show errors in your mail.log. If seperate
local ports are used, both start quickly, and no errors are seen.

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