[NTLUG:Discuss] ssh port forwarding revisted...

[Tom Woody]

I currently use ssh port forwarding for checking email on a server I control (set my pop client to check email on port 2110 which is forwarded to my mail server port 110) simple.  I also send email this way (send email on local port 2025 which is forwarded to mailserver port 25).  This works out very well and keeps my pop3 traffic secure.

Now I want to expand this and I think I remember hearing about this from Madhat's presentation on ssh, but I have incomplete notes, and I haven't found any resources on the net with the info.  AT&T cable has pop3 email servers, but you cant access those servers except from the AT&T network - or by using strange port configs that I just don't want to have to deal with. So...

I want to use ssh to forward a local port on my workstation here at work, to my firewall at home (running OpenBSD), where it would act as a pass through.  Is this even possible, I have looked for all I can for the ssh -R and ssh -L, but I can't find anything that gives any good information.

for the ascii people out there  - 
WorkMachine==============Home firewall------------------AT&T Mail servers
                ssh                      normal pop3

Let me know if its unclear what I am trying to do...

-- 
Tom Woody

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