Mail fetching problem

[John Summerfield]

On Sunday 05 December 2004 21:26, Jim Higson wrote:
> I'm thinking it might be possible to automatically open an ssh connection,
> call inc on their machine (to transfer the mail to my remote home dir) then
> use ftp to copy it to my machine.

Something like
ssh -L1110:pop3.example.edu:110 example.edu
then collect your mail from localhost port 1110.
For more:-
  man ssh


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