On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 19:11, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On 2 Jul 2002, Erez Doron wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:17, Michael Sternberg wrote: > > > > > > Just a proposition - can't you use port forwarding capabilities of SSH ? > > > > is there a way to use ssh to connect to an ssl imap server ? > > > > ssh imap-server 993 ? > > > > i dont think so, but correctme if I'm wrong > > If you have ssh, why would you need to further encrypt the connection with > ssl? > > ssh remote-server /usr/sbin/imapd I do not own the server and can not login to it
the server belongs to my ISP, and it supports only ssl-imap on port 993 erez. > > Authentication is handled by ssh. imapd will identify you as a local use, > and require no further authentication. > > (works at least for wu-imapd, and supported at least by pine and mutt) > > You can of-course port-forward port 143 of remote-server to some local > port, and this will work ith any mailer and any imapd. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
