Absolutely. In fact, it's pretty easy if they're letting you ssh into work from home. Basically, you use ssh port forwarding to tunnel IMAP over the ssh connection. Observe...
Instead of the normal command:
% ssh somehost.somewhere.com
we point the local port 4500 at remote port 143
% ssh -L 4500:imaphost.somewhere.com:143 somehost.somewhere.com
And ssh should perform delayed name resolution so that it's the host
"somewhere" that makes the connection to "imaphost". You can also
perform multiple mappings with this, such as:
% ssh -L 4500:imaphost.somewhere.com:143 -L
4525:imaphost.somewhere.com:25 somehost.somewhere.com
So now you're also tunnelling SMTP, such that the host "imaphost" will
thing that the connections come from "somehost", instead of your home.
Enjoy!
-Ian
On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 19:30, Andrew Bainbridge-Smith wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> A little background in order to pose my question. I use evolution on my
> work machine via IMAP to the corporate Exchange servers. The
> corporation firewalls, however, blocks the IMAP ports on the exchange
> servers to the internet and dialup connections. I would like to read my
> email at home (using evolution) and I connect to my internal work
> machine using ssh. Obviously the internal machine can access the
> exchange servers and I store most of my mail in local folders on this
> machine.
>
> My question is: "Is there a straight forward way of accessing my local
> mail boxes and is there a way of accessing the exchange IMAP server?"
> The one restriction is that "only when hell freezes over" will corporate
> IT allow IMAP connection from my dialup home connection.
>
> Thanks in advance for all suggestions,
> Andrew
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> Senior Research Engineer
> Machine Vision Group
> CSIRO Manufacturing Science and Technology
> Australia
>
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