ssh port redirection ?

[Michael O'Donnell]

>IOW, I want to:
>
>        - run fetchmail on system A, which will redirect the query to system B. 
>        - have system B intercept that query and pass it on to the 
>          proper pop server on the net
>        - take the mail off the server using B, but pass it back to 
>          system A
>
>         -----           -----           -----
>        |     |_________|     |_________| POP/|
>        |  A  |         |  B  |         | NET |
>         -----           -----           -----
>
>Any ideas how to do this? 


This oughta work:

   While standing on systemA you say:
   
      ssh -o 'LocalForward somePortNumber popServer:110' systemB
   
   ...and then you'd tell fetchmail on systemA to connect
   to localhost:somePortNumber