IMAP via SSH via dial-up?

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:48:17AM -0600, Michael Hipp took 22 lines to write:
> Would this work or would it be so slow as to be unusable?

No slower than IMAP via dial-up, unless you're using a 300 baud acoustic
coupler, in which case you have other problems. ;-)

> 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.)

Strictly speaking, you needn't use fetchmail at all. Any IMAP-capable mail
client and a properly configured IMAP4 server should allow you to read your
email on the server (and leave it there, if you so choose).

Kurt
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