How can I download my mail?

I hope to eventually expand this into a section with screenshots and stuff, but right now I'm just trying to get the general skeleton done. Here's a quick rundown on how to do it:

Method 1: SSL

Tell your email program to use an SSL, or Secure connection.

• Netscape - Configuration
• Mozilla - Configuration

Method 2: Forwarding over SSH

1. Obtain an ssh program that supports port forwarding.

2. Tell your ssh program to forward local port 10110 (for POP3) and/or port 10143 (for IMAP) to remote host:port yip.org:110 or yip.org:143, respectively:

   • Most commandline ssh's:

     ssh -L 10110:yip.org:110 you@yip.org
     

     or

     ssh -L 10143:yip.org:10143 you@yip.org
     

     The reason for not forwarding local port 110 is because you must be root to take over any ports below 1024, and we'd rather not force you to have root privileges to do things with yip.org. Note that you can put in multiple -L flags (and thus forward multiple ports).
   • MindTerm Java - Configuration

3. If you do not already have an ssh connection open to yip.org, connect now.
4. This is the part that a lot of people find confusing. Tell your e-mail software that your POP3 or IMAP server (ie, the server you retrieve your mail from) is localhost or 127.0.0.1 . You must also tell it to connect to port 10110 (or 10143, for IMAP) instead of the default.