If you're already using ssh, it should be trivial: ssh -Lport:remotehost:143 ...login stuff
That will forward connections to the local port of 'port' to the 'remotehost' port 143 (imap). Then you just setup your local mail configuration to use localhost:port On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 12:00, 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 > -- > Dr Andrew Bainbridge-Smith > Senior Research Engineer > Machine Vision Group > CSIRO Manufacturing Science and Technology > Australia > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
