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Non-Telecommuting example
Split campuses/offices -only one POP server.
Want the connection encrypted to hide passwd.
Use a SSH tunnel, at the satellite run (as root):
# ssh -L 110:popserver:110 work.com
maybe in a loop from rc.local
single user can do this for fetchmail
Notes:
This has to be run as root because it listens on
a privelegded port (<1024). fetchmail can be
instructed to use a high port.
Script might look like:
while [ 1]
do
ssh -L 110:pop:110 work.com sleep 7200
sleep 10
done
So how are you going to handle the password?