On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Rob Hudson wrote: > I'm just polling for what options are available for using fetchmail > w/o sending the password in the clear. > > I'm using fetchmail on a Linux machine, and asking for the mail via a > POP protocol on a FreeBSD machine. Read the excellent Secure POP via SSH Mini-HOWTO, located at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Secure-POP+SSH.html It includes information on doing it in several POP3 situations, including fetchmail. In short, for general use run: ssh -C -f popserver -L 31337:popserver:110 sleep 5 -C enables compression -f once established, fork to background -L forward local port 31337 to port 110 on remote server (popserver). Use a high local port, so any user can create a socket (>1024) sleep 5 - sleep 5 seconds, I usually like to bump this up to 8 hours or so, so I can have my tunnel all day long hope this helps! jakob
