Getting email remotely

[David Aikema]

On June 18, 2002 06:36 am, Joel Hammer wrote:

> 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.

I'd have to reccomend using SSH instead of telnet.

One other possibility, if you're running a web server on the machine, is to 
install a webmail app (SquirrelMail for example) for you to use.

David Aikema