[ale] Quick tutorial on ssh port forwarding my mail?

[Benjamin Scherrey]

Robert -

	Many thanx. SSH is so elegant and cool sometimes it's hard to imagine. Worked first time!

	Ben Scherrey

4/29/2004 10:17:27 PM, Robert Story <rstory-l at revelstone.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:09:44 -0400 Benjamin wrote:
>BS> In light of this, and other potential security issues, it seems
>BS> that using the ssh port forwarding features might be a good solution for
>BS> me. Is it?
>
>That's what I do. Here's a snippet from my .ssh/config:
>
>--- cut here ---
>#
>Host host-tunnel
>HostName hosting.example.com
>User myid
>KeepAlive yes
>LocalForward 42143 localhost:143
>LocalForward 42110 localhost:110
>LocalForward 42025 localhost:25
>--- cut here ---
>
>Then I set up my mail client to pop/imap from localhost:[42110|42143], and set
>my mail server to localhost 42025. The high port numbers are arbitrary. I just
>prefix the normal numbers with '42', which is easy for me to remember.
>
>The second part of the forward lines will be resolved on the *remote* host, no
>your localhost. So if you are ssh'ing into a corporate net, you can use local
>names.
>
>
>The other option, is to set your home mail server to use a smart-relay, i.e.
>forward mail to your ISP's mail server.
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