[Info-vax] SMTP and POP/IMAP through SSH

[Richard Whalen]

"Crni Gorac" <cgorac at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:d6d6182f-6963-4efa-a467-844dfba350ac at b16g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
> Now when Eisner is hopefully on its way back (many thanks to everyone
> involved in starting resolving this issue!):
>
:
> program on the desktop machine).  So, my question is then: is it
> possible to employ VMS server to work with e-mail this way (to talk
> with SMTP server on remote machine through SSH, and to fetch mail
> through SSH too)?
>
> Thanks.

This can be done with port forwarding.  For MultiNet and TCPware the syntax 
would be:
/local_forward=(1100:EISNER:110)        ! access POP3 on port 2500 on the 
local system
the SSH session would have to be established before the POP3 connection is 
attempted and remain active until after the POP3 session has finished.

I do not know what the syntax would be for TCP/IP services.