Richard> It's Monday morning, I'm tired, and I've got a headache, so Richard> I'm not sure I can even explain the problem right now, let Richard> alone solve it. Richard> Work seems to block port 25 (SMTP), but not 993 (IMAP-S) or Richard> 22 (SSH), so I can SSH into my (home) mail server, or read my Richard> mail via IMAP, but I can't send anything. My (home) email Richard> account doesn't have a shell account, so I can't log-in via Richard> SSH and send email in pine or something (and that would be a Richard> PITA, anyway). Umm... if you can get into your home mail server via SSH, why can't you send email from there using plain old 'mail' command? Or do you have something similar to what I have, which is my own domain, which gets my email and then dumps it into my ISP's email system for pulling down? In that case, using my ISP's outgoing email servers was problematic, because they didn't like me using my @stoffel.org domain email address on outgoing email. Or at least they didn't like it much, and people further downstream started dropping/bouncing my emails thinking I was a spammer. So now I have postfix at home setup to use SMTPS to send all outgoing email via my domain's ISP's mail server, encrypted and all is good again. But basically, can you explain your setup in more detail please? It's not clear where the bottleneck really is. Richard> What are my options? Can I use putty to tunnel SMTP through Richard> port 22 SSH? Not ideal in my mind, since you're trying to make work act like your home system. Which as we get more and more mobile in our professional lives, isn't a good idea in my mind any more. Heck, I'm reading this from work, but I'm ssh'd into my home system and all the processing and such is happening within a 'screen' session using Emacs and the mail reader 'vm'. All text based, and quick and easy to write/read/edit emails. Richard> One of these days I'll set up webmail and this will be a moot Richard> point, but I'm hoping for a quicker, more immediate solution. Blech. Why is the web the answer to all questions now? *grin* And of course you would make sure to only allow HTTPS connections to your squirrelmail web mail server running on your home machine, right? Good luck! John