Open
Bug 200864
Opened 22 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
automatic SSH tunnelling for pop/imap/smtp
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Networking, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
NEW
People
(Reporter: lpkruger, Unassigned)
References
Details
(Keywords: helpwanted)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030405 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030405 Looking through the bug list, it seems that lots of people use ssh forwarding to connect to protected mail servers. I think it would be very useful if this kind of connection was treated as a 1st class citizen by the mail/news app. The idea is to allow some configuration options to let Mozilla automatically setup the necessary ssh forward when it connects to an ssh server. This could be done, for example, by linking Mozilla with the OpenSSL library. Some glue code to setup the tunnel and UI in the mail/news setup menu to configure this automatic SSH tunneling would round out the feature. This has several advantages over setting up the tunnel manually: 1) Don't have to configure the server to be "localhost" which makes no sense. 2) Could have multiple secure connections to different servers defined simultaneously. 3) Don't have to have any open listening ports at all on the localhost machine. 4) Don't have to manually setup and take down the tunnel each time you want to check your email. Having this feature would make using SSH to access mail securely as easy as using SSL. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: n/a RFE Actual Results: n/a RFE Expected Results: n/a RFE
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Comment 1•22 years ago
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Just to indulge in a little "blue-sky" thinking, having tight SSH tunnel integration in Mozilla could be useful in other ways too. Consider: 1) Having SSH tunneling as a 1st class proxy type. Imagine using Mozilla to browse inside a corporate firewall through an SSH gateway. Each page request automatically sets up a temporary tunnel. 2) This could even be combined with a way to allow different proxy settings for different domains, to allow browsing multiple protected networks at the same time. 3) To make Mozilla able to browse and transfer files on remote filesystems though SSH as easily as through FTP. Just some ideas off the top of my head. Maybe some developer will find this interesting. One can dream. :)
Comment 2•22 years ago
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It should be possible to use mozilla's own NSS for SSL here, I think.
Updated•20 years ago
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OS: Linux → All
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
Updated•16 years ago
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Assignee: mscott → nobody
QA Contact: grylchan → mailnews.networking
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Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
Comment 3•16 years ago
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Bug 318481 & Bug 136129 could probably do with being linked to this somehow, though if anything this is a dupe of bug 136129.
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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