Carl Cerecke wrote:
The problem:
I want to securely access my email via IMAP using a decent mail
client. But my ISP does not offer secure IMAP, though it does offer
secure webmail (squirrelmail).
Proposed solution:
On my home server, run an IMAP proxy which accepts secure IMAP
connections, and forwards them on to the insecure IMAP at the ISP.
You mean like stunnel?
I tried, as an experiment, to use thunderburd over a ssh -X -C
connection, but it was unuseably slow.
Why not just forward the IMAP connection over the ssh connection
(running "decent mail client" locally)? Assuming you have that allowed
on your sshd.
