On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:03:16 -0700 Alex Feldman <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would like to run the IMAP protocol through an ssh tunnel. So leaving > the orignal script in place, I su'd to root on my laptop and entered the > following command: > > ssh -L 143:myserver:143 myserver What does your IMAP server line on thunderbird say? Did you change it to localhost on port 143?? > ssh -L 8118:myserver:143 myserver > > to try to set up the tunnel without being root, but nothing seems to > work - thunderbird always tries and retries and eventually gives up > trying to establish a connection. a tcpdump might help. what does it say? Ethy
