IMAP via SSH via dial-up?

[Raymond Russell]

On Dec 8, 2004, at 9:48 AM, 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
>


With IMAP all of your mail stays on the server until you delete it.
So you would SSH to your box forwarding the IMAP ports then point
your IMAP mail client at the local machine.

For the dial up machine have your client only get the headers not
the entire message.

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Ray Russell
ray1083 at sdf.lonestar.org
http://www.freeshell.org
Public Access Unix
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