SSH tunnel for Mail not working - ModMyiFone.com - iPhone

sfsleeper · #1 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 09:49 AM

I wrote some shell code for my iPhone which first port knocks to my server to open up the firewall, and then creates an SSH tunnel for imap and smtp so that I can check and send mail through my server.

All those steps seem to be working, and I can telnet to the local end of the imap tunnel from the iPhone to verify that the SSH tunnel is open. However, Mail doesn't work. It tells me that it cannot connect to localhost even though it is supposed to be connecting to the tunneled port.

Does anyone have any ideas why this isn't working?

Thanks.

Martok · #2 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 09:22 PM

how are you instructing mail.app to use the ssh tunnel that is in place?

sfsleeper · #3 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 11:18 PM

In the Mail preferences I set the imap settings to localhost (also tried 129.0.0.1) and the tunneled port (2143).

Martok · #4 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 11:34 PM

did you try 127.0.0.1? I believe this is the correct loopback ip address of the localhost (Confirmed by pinging localhost in ssh session).

hypnotx · #5 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 10:34 PM

Did you figure this out? I have a similar issue trying to tunnel VNSea over SSH.

Tonysteiner · #6 (**permalink**) 06-07-2008, 06:13 AM

Still no solution? I'm trying to do the same, but I get the same errors here.

Anyone?

sfsleeper · #7 (**permalink**) 06-07-2008, 09:05 AM

I got it to work, but I had to kill MobileMail after opening the tunnel. Otherwise the change doesn't register.

Tonysteiner · #8 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008, 09:46 AM

Hmm, yes I already figured this out myself, but I stil can't connect to the server...
How did you set up the tunnel? I'm ssh-ing from my desktop machine to my iphone and starting it from there.