IMAP via SSH via dial-up?

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Would this work or would it be so slow as to be unusable?
>
> Explanation: I now have 4 locations (4 machines) where I spend enough time
> working that I need to monitor my e-mail while there. Downloading the same
> e-mails to 4 different machines and sorting through what is new or not is
> unbearable. Some of the locations only have dial-up. I don't want to open any
> holes into my main server to anything other than SSH - it's the one thing I
> truly trust.
>
> So can I set up IMAP on my server, use fetchmail to download the stuff, and
> then port-forward SSH into it so I can see my email from Thunderchicken? (I'm
> just not really familiar with how IMAP works.)
>
> Thanks,
> Michael

I can't speak for the implimentation details, but i know that my employer
uses encrypted IMAP and it works just fine for me in Mozilla.


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