DSL providers in Toronto

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

At 17:24 08/01/2004 -0500, Michael Galea wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CLIFFORD ILKAY [mailto:clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org]
> >
> > At 12:30 08/01/2004 -0500, Michael Galea wrote:
> > >Customer support experience at eol seems to vary.  Some know
> > >Linux, some don't.  When I emailed them a few months ago to
> > >ask them if they supported pop over ssh, they first asked me
> > >what it was and then took a day or two to figure out they
> > >didn't support it.
> >
> > I am wondering why you had to ask them at all. If you can ssh
> > to them, you
> > can download your POP mail using that ssh tunnel by using
> > port forwarding
> > regardless of whether they "support" it or not.
>
>That's just it, ssh to their mail server just timed out.  So I
>went knocking.

When you say ssh to their mail server timed out, were you doing ssh 
YourUID-qL7AqsbLqriBPTkbv0u5gVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org:110? If so, I am not surprised it would time 
out. If you can do ssh YourUID-qL7AqsbLqriBPTkbv0u5gVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org and get connected, you 
can do what you want. e.g. ssh -L 1110:SomeThingOrOther.com:110 
YourUID-qL7AqsbLqriBPTkbv0u5gVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org (all on one line) should create an ssh tunnel 
between your computer and the remote host. You would point your mail client 
to check mail on your computer port 1110. Any POP requests that hit 
localhost:110 will be forwarded to remotehost:110 across the tunnel. 
Obviously, you should pick a local port that is not being used by something 
else.

Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis Corporation
3266 Yonge Street, Suite 1419
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4N 3P6

Tel: 416-410-3326 

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