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

[Crni Gorac]

Apologies if I wasn't clear enough in my question:  I was not asking
about configuring VMS server.  I was talking about handling mail
between Linux as a desktop machine, and VMS server (Eisner, hopefully,
soon again).  So the mail for the user arrives to the VMS machine, and
the user wants to fetch this mail to his local Linux machine; also,
the user wants to send his email, composed on his local Linux machine,
through SMTP server on the VMS machine too.  Now, Eisner had SMTP and
POP3 services (I don't remember at the moment was IMAP service active
on Eisner), so it will probably have them active again, thus most mail
client programs (like Thunderbird and alike) will just connect to
these services (preferably employing SSL too) and get mail from
Eisner, and also send some other mail through Eisner, without any
problems.  However, I was interested about going through SSH instead
of SSL.  One of options is, obviously, creating SSH tunnels between
local Linux machine to Eisner.  But, if the server is Linux, this
could be accomplished in even simpler manner.  For example, for
sending mail, my e-mail client program (mutt), is using external
program, and I can instruct it to talk with sendmail program on the
Linux server directly by specifying something like "/usr/bin/ssh
remote.server.com /usr/bin/sendmail" for the command line for sending
e-mail.  I was wondering is it possible to talk to SMTP program on VMS
server this way, and if so - what would be the command line?  Somewhat
likewise, for receiving mail, and IMAP server on the VMS machine
(although in this case things are more complicated, and support from
the protocol is needed, thus POP3 cannot be utilized)...

Thanks.