Greetings, René Berber! >> I ran netstat, I think in a non-cygwin terminal, and didn't see the >> ports listed
> Then there is no tunnel. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This. > You probably used the wrong command instead of 'ssh -fNL ...' >> For thunderbird, I pointed it at localhost and >> the forwarded port, and was unable to connect. One reason I asked is >> that I have only middling confidence I know what t-bird is actually >> doing. > TBird will have one minor problem: the server certificate. > Since you are connecting to localhost and the server has its own name in > the certificate (if configured correctly), then you will be shown the > warning panel, and you will have to 'accept' to continue using that server. >> On the other hand, inside a cygwin terminal I was able to use openssl to >> connect via the same port on localhost. > Meaning? > Did you use "openssl s_client ..." or you mean something else. That > test if for sending main, not reading, which seems to be what you wanted > to do. openssl "s_client" command is for general TLS functionality check. You can use it to connect to any TLS-enables service. You can think about it as if it is telnet for TLS. >> The target port is secure IMAP, 993. > As long as TBird is configured (Server settings) with the correct port, > and "Security Settings" (SSL/TLS), there is no problem, it works. > There are 2 separate configurations in TBird, one for reading, one for > sending (at the bottom of the "Account Settings" window: "Outgoing Server"). -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 25.06.2012, <13:34> Sorry for my terrible english...
