IMAP via SSH via dial-up?

[Matthew Carpenter]

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You can do that, or use IMAPS (if your server doesn't support it, use
STUNNEL or SSLWrapper).


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
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