Hello,
Thanks for your reply. I am using a modem connection and the sylpheed client.
As many modem users working offline, I make a lot of short modem connections.
At the time, my client supports any command for sending. This was probably done
to use the local "s
endmail" command on unix systems, but I often use it to send to remote sendmail
server where I have shell access. Do do it I just replaced the "sendmail"
command by "ssh remote.server.org sendmail --some-options". This allows for
compression which may be
interesting for long text messages over a slow modem connexion. As the "ssh"
command is inside the configuration of the client, there is no need to
establish a ssh tunnel after each modem connection, you just start the modem
and send through the regular c
ommand of the client.
At some point I remembered that the "pine" client could be configured to use a
"ssh remote.server.org /usr/lib/rpopd" command to access a pop (or imap)
server. Then I asked me if this approach could work with Qpopper, because I
have an mail account on a s
erver which uses Qpopper, and to which I can ssh. As suggested a tunnel would
allow me to use compression, but I would have to start it manually after each
modem connection, the "ssh" command would be configured into the client and
would reduce the number
of manipulations at each connection.
Have a nice day,
Jean-Bernard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:24:50 -0400
"Alan W. Rateliff, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 4:11 PM
> > To: Subscribers of Qpopper
> > Subject: Is it possible to use qpopper with ssh?
> >
> > 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.
>
> I'm not quite sute what you're trying to accomplish, and I have a couple of
> theories on why this fails. Why not just create a tunnel through SSH to
> access a QPopper running in inetd or as a stand-alone server on the far end?
>
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