sshd port forward

Ugo Bellavance ugob at camo-route.com
Mon Sep 19 07:01:05 PDT 2005


Erik Norgaard wrote:
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> 
>> I'm connecting from a windows box, using putty.
> 
> 
> Ok, this wasn't clear.
> 
>> in the SSH > Tunnels section of the connexion, there is:
>>
>> L80    192.168.x.x:80
>> L143    192.168.x.x:80

Typo:  should read: L143	192.168.x.x:143

>>
>> 192.168.x.x is the IP address of the server on which I connect to, and
>> that has the dovecot server installed.
> 
> 
> Try: L1430 127.0.0.1:143
> 
> You should then be able to connect to your imap server by connecting to
> port 1430 on localhost.
> 
> When I tunnel (ok, this is FBSD2FBSD) I use:
> 
> $ ssh -L1430:localhost:143 imap.example.com

It does connect, prompts for a password.  When I provide the right
password, I can see that there are new message (Thunderbird), but when I
click on a message to see it, it doesn't load the message and freezes my
ssh session.

> 
> Cheers, Erik
> 

Regards,
-- 
Ugo

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