I am trying to get a POP3 session running through SSH, but I am having some trouble. I checked out the Secure-POP+SSH mini how-to but I cannot connect to the local forwarded port. Here's what I am doing: $ ssh -C -f dave at mailserver -L 11110:mailserver:110 sleep 1000 Then when I try to connect I get the following: [dave at merlin dave]$ telnet localhost 11110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. [dave at merlin dave]$ Any suggestions? Dave ----- "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum - Computer Networks