On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 21:07 -0500, phusion wrote:
> I've been trying to figure out how to check my POP3 mail securely in
> Evolution by tunneling using openssh. Right now, I have a shell script
> I run to check my email (evolution.sh).
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # set up SSH tunnel
> ssh -L 8110:mailserver:110 -L 8025:mailserver:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 'sleep 30; exit' &
> # start up Evolution
> evolution
>
> Inside Evolution I've set it up to check localhost:8110 and
> localhost:8025. When I run the script it opens Evolution and I can
> check my email, but if I leave Evolution open for a few minutes then
> decide to email someone, by that time the ports 8110 and 8025 are
> closed. Is there any way to allow my script to keep running and keep
> the ports open until Evolution has been closed? Let me know how I can
> do this. Thanks.
I use "sleep 100000" in my ssh command line, which leaves it running for
that period of seconds.
Des
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