SSH tunneling of email from a Windows application to UNIX

Windows mail applications, like MS Outlook, can also connect to UNIX/linux based POP/IMAP servers. The principle is the same as explained when doing so with a UNIX/linux application, except that there is no need to define a specific local port.

For Windows applications, the local and remote port numbers stay the same.

Follow the followin steps to read your UNIX/linux mail from a Windows application:

• Connect to the mail server using an SSH application like putty.
• Configure your mail application (ex: Outlook) to use localhost:143 (for IMAP) or localhost:110 (for POP) as your incoming mail server.
• Start reading mail

Remember that, as was the case above, one must keep the SSH-connection open in order to keep your tunneling going.