Questions about your web hosting plans (fwd)

[pardsbane at offthehill.org (Joshua Pollak)]

I used to do a similar thing to connection to my IMAP server at my 
house, because while outbound IMAPS was blocked by our work firewall, 
outbound SSH wasn't. It was a pain to start this connection up every 
day, it was pretty slow (ssh adds a lot of overhead I guess), and the 
connection got dropped pretty often, and I'd have to rerun the command. 
But it worked and was secure. My speed and connection problems may be 
due to our local firewall though, I'm not sure.

> The command would look like this:
>
> ssh user at machine.pair.com -L 25:mail.pair.com:25 -L \
>   110:mail.pair.com:110 -L 143:mail.pair.com:143

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