At 04:10 PM 6/16/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Is it possible to use qpopper through a ssh connection ? Like:
ssh my.pop.server.net /usr/sbin/in.qpopper
I made a try and I have the impression I have to start with USER and PASS
commands, even if I am alredy loged throught ssh, which is in itself not a
big problem. The problem I noticed is with the PASS command qpopper
complains about accessing the password
file and die and the connection is broken.
Any suggestion ? Can I do that with qpopper or do I need to compile
another popd, which one ?
You're configuring a tunnel using SSH for the POP traffic. The POP server
software (qpopper) doesn't have any special knowledge of this. To it, the
POP session is originating on the end of the SSH tunnel nearest to it. So
qpopper would still need username and password.
This is as it should be anyway, I would think. Consider that you might have
multiple POP accounts active on a mail server that you check from your
laptop. You could use SSH to establish a tunnel to transport the POP
traffic, then check email for the multiple accounts. POP server would need
the username and password for each anyway.
Also consider that in some server configurations, the login name space used
by SSH and the mailbox name space used by qpopper might be independent of
one another.
Dan
