On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Eben King wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, botteman wrote:
>
> > Have a Knology email account and trouble is when
> > traveling and trying to use my Knology account while
> > connected thru another isp, namely Comcast.
>
> Most ISPs won't let outsiders use their SMTP server. Unless you can reach
> some arrangement with them, you could try artful port forwarding using SSH,
> where it forwards your_smtp_server:22 to high_port locally, and then you
> tell your MUA (Thunderbird?) to use localhost:high_port. That assumes
> your home machine (1) accepts SSH logins, and (2) will forward ports.
I think this is what you want:
-L port:host:hostport
Specifies that the given port on the local (client) host is to be
forwarded to the given host and port on the remote side.
So the syntax would be something like
ssh ... -L 1024:smtp.knology.com:22 your_home_machine
and then set Tbird to use localhost:1024.
Adjust to taste.
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