Re: apache sid

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

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On Monday 04 November 2002 12:54 pm, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote:

> Ideas??
>
> I'd like to get it started by Friday so I'll be able to get to my email
> when I'm at work over the weekend. Work firewall has port 143 blocked so
> I've been using squirrelmail for remote access to my IMAP setup. Can I
> feed IMAP over an oddball port like 8181 and use some winbox client to
> get to it (since my work box is winXP)?

I can't help you with your apache problem but have you thought of trying ssh?

Get putty from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ which is an 
ssh client (amongst other things) for win32.

ssh supports (and so does putty) the ability forward ports over encrypted 
channels. So you can forward your imap port over the ssh channel to appear to 
be a port on your local machine.  You can then direct your prefered mail 
client at that port and bingo - you can get at your mail.

Setup sshd on your home box (I assume this is debian - its part of the "ssh" 
package - say you want to run a server as part of the setup) - create a key 
with putty's key gen and then put the resultant text file into 
~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

You can then use putty to create a named session to get you in and setup the 
port forwarding for you.  I have startmenu entries that call putty with the 
session name to start it up when I want to use it.



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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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