On Wednesday 07 October 2020 23:07:55 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2020 Wed, 7 Oct 16:32:12 -0700 > > William Morder via tde-users scripsit: > > Since we are going off-topic all over the place, I will try to be the > > pillar of stability here. (I know, I know, but nobody else will do it.) I > > am starting a new thread, because this goes off-topic in a good way. > > You earned yourself a cookie :) Yet no ice cream or milk to go with it. Also, I believe there was some mention of apfelstrudel,* but my plate is still empty. * apologies for missing umlaut P.S. We call it apple strudel in these here parts. > > > I believe it was Michael who wrote this memorable line, which immediately > > got > > > > my attention: > > > POP through an always present SSH tunnel. > > > > Now, I have used ssh tunnels for lots of programs that are more (what's > > the word?) "passive"; that is, listening to online radio, xmpp clients, > > wget, youtube-dl and apt-get and other things like that, where I am > > mostly downloading data. But when I tried to run Kmail over any proxy > > connections, it would crash. It seemed to me that an ssh tunnel would be > > the way, but how to do it? > > POP is running on somewhereelse. You connet to somewhereelse through ssh: > ssh you@somewhereelse -L8110:localhost:110 > Now somwherelse:110 (aka POP) is on your localhost:110 - ready for kmail to > connext. Please note, that the "localhost" is leative to somewhereelse, not > your local computer. > > POP is running on a thepopserver, reachable from somewhereelse. You connet > to sumewhereelse through ssh and build a tunel that ends on thepopserver. > note, thepopserver only needs to be reachable from somewhereelse, not your > local site: ssh you@somewhereelse -L8110:thepopserver:110 > Now thepopserver:110 (aka POP) is on your localhost:110 - ready for kmail > to connext. > Just guessing, but I assume that the port number can be changed to, say, 995 -- right? Also, does it work about the same with smtp? > Or use sshuttle to tunnel all your traffic through somewhereelse. > > Note: the local end (on your local computer) of the tunnel is established > immediately, the remote part (somewherelse) is established when something > connects to the local end. > > Nik > Thanks, Nik! This is why I like the TDE mailing list. Somebody else has probably already tried out whatever I am just now imagining. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
