IMAP via SSH via dial-up?

[Ken Moffat]

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'd use imap ssl, which uses port 993, and point thunderbird at it, 
although I guess you would have to open that port.

-- 
ken