PoP3 trough ssh Howto
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To tunnel PoP3 mail protocol through ssh to an 
outside connected system and receive e-mail.

machines involved:

pop-client	inside client machine
ssh-server	border machine with sshd running
mail-server	outside mail server to read from 

1. configure mail client on pop-client to connect to localhost
port 110 instead to the outside mail server directly

2. run on pop-client
su -c "ssh -L 110:mail.server.net:110 rootb@ssh-server"
(depending on the mail client this can be even automated in a pre-connect
script call)

password: <the local root password> (necessary for privilegded port 110)
rootb@ssh-server's password: <the remote password>

3. retrieve mail and be happy!