IMAP via SSH via dial-up?

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Michael Hipp wrote:

| Ken Moffat wrote:
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|> Michael Hipp wrote:
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|>> 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.
|
|
| I've become experienced enough with SSH to trust it. And it has an
| enviable record of security.
|
| Can the same be said of SSL? To me it has never been anything more
| than an on-the-fly encryption scheme to prevent eavesdropping but
| does no real authentication (of the public/private key variety).
|
| So I hear ya on SSL, I'm just stuck thinking of it as a lightweight.
|
| Any information/insights appreciated ...
|
Think of SSH as Telnet over SSL...  IIANM, That's basically the cruxt
of the matter.
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