Getting email remotely

[Joel Hammer]

It depends on you, but, I have used two methods.

1. One, I used netscape to contact my mail server on my home computer. You
have to decide if you want pop or imap and open up those ports.
cat /etc/services | grep pop or imap to see which ports. pop is simpler and
fewer complications, like dumping all your email to your remote computer.

2. You can just telnet to your home computer and read email from the command
line. That's port 23. That is what I do now, and greatly prefer it, since I
can use mutt, not netscape, for my email.

Both of these methods have security issues of which you should be aware. I
have no solutions to offer, since I use my own idiosyncratic methods.
ssl might be the way to go.

Joel

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:05:31AM -0400, Brian Witowski wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I use a linux box as an email server.  It running sendmail.  I also have
> Fetchmail running which goes out and retrieves mail from two seperate POP3
> accounts and dumps them in my local linux accounts.
> 
> My connection is dynamic but IF I knew my IP address, what would be the
> easiest/best way to read my email from another location?  Which ports would
> I have to open up?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
>