Configuring POP3/IMAP(incoming email) This page describes how to set up various email programs for use with F-Secure ssh port forwarding. This page shows how to set up these programs for JHUnix, but the process is exactly the same for the rest of the servers. The basic idea is, once you use port forwarding, you are no longer connecting to your original mail server, but to your own computer. Your email client goes through your open secure connection to your email server and gets your mail that way. Therefore, the only real change you need to make, is changing what your email client thinks the server is. Instead of being hops, or JHUnix, you need to tell your client to connect to itself. Depending on the client, this is either '127.0.0.1' or 'localhost.' If one doesn't work in your client, try the other. They mean the same thing, but different program like different terms. Microsoft Outlook 98 and Outlook Express If you have an existing account in Outlook:
Go: Tools -> Accounts Highlight the name that you gave your email account then click on Properties Click on the tab marked servers Change the field labled "Incoming mail (POP3)" to read 'localhost' instead of 'jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu' Click on "OK" then on "Close" in the next window All of your settings should work now
If you are setting up a new account: Go: Tools -> Accounts Click on Add -> Mail Fill in your name then click on 'Next' Enter your email address then click on 'Next' Select 'POP3' in the selection box, type 'localhost' in the field marked "Incomming mail" Type your JHUnix logon into the field marked POP account name. If you want your password saved (so you don't have to retype it), type it into the field marked 'Password', then click on next. I don't recomend doing this. Give the account any name you want to, then click on 'next' Select the way your computer is connecting to the internet (probably LAN) and click on the button next to it, then click on 'next' Click on 'Finish'
Eudora (should be the same for all Eudora email products): If you have an existing account in Eudora: - Click on Tools -> Options
- Click on "Getting Started"
- Change the field labled "POP Account" to read '(your JHUNIX logon)@127.0.0.1' (for some versions of Eudora)
- Change the field labled "Mail Server(Incoming)" to read '127.0.0.1' (for other versions of Eudora)
- Click on 'OK'
If you are creating a new account in Eudora: - If a "wizard" begins running to help you set up an account, click on "cancel." This way is easier.
- When you first run the program, a window lable "Options" should appear. If not, go to Tools -> Options
- On the left side of the window, click on the Getting Started
- Enter your name and enter the email address that you would like people to see as being yours (and for them to reply to) in the filed labled "Return address."
- Enter '127.0.0.1' in the field lable "Mail Server (Incomming)"
- Enter your login in the field labled "Login."
- Enter 'jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu' in the field labled "SMTP Server (Outgoing)"
- Go through the rest of the options on the left side (leave a copy of mail on the server, remember password, etc) of the screen and configure your account how you would like it.
Netscape: If you are creating a new account in Netscape: - Follow the instructions of the wizard up until it asks for the server where you will get your email
- When it asks for that server name, enter '127.0.0.1'
If you have an existing account in Netscape: - Go to Edit -> Preferences
- Click on the '+' next to "Mail and Newsgroups" to expand that group
- Click on "Mail Servers"
- In the field labled "Incoming Mail Servers." click on the server you were using, then click on the "Delete" button
- Click on the "OK" button on the window that pops up
- Click on the "Add" button
- In the field labled "Server Name," enter '127.0.0.1'
- In the field labled "Server Type," select the type of mail server
- In the field labled "User Name," enter you login name for your email server
- Change any other setting you want to, then click on "OK"
- Click on the "OK" button at the bottom of the window and you should be ready to go
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