[fetchmail]Help requested with pop3 via ssh
Matthias Andree
matthias.andree@gmx.de
Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:13:35 +0100
David Williams <davidjw@calypso-it.co.uk> writes:
> Good thinking. I did try fetchmail -v but it didn't give me any info for
> some reason.
> Using netcat solves the problem perfectly. Thanks.
>
> Just for the record the working command is:
>
> poll server proto POP3 plugin "ssh -C user@remotehost nc localhost 110"
> user xxxxx there with password pppppp is yyyyyy here
An alternative for netcat is the "sock" command (somewhat similar to
netcat, with fewer options though).
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Matthias Andree