On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:25:18AM +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 10:48 +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote: > > I'm currently tunneling imap through ssh with compression enabled. > > That's a good temporary solution indeed. Note that your SSL layer might > already do compression, in which case the SSH tunnel will just add > latency to your connection.
I like SSH tunnels for my IMAP connections because (1) I don't have to set up an externally-visible IMAPS port, and (2) I can use SSH key authentication (and therefore ssh-agent) instead of a username/password pair for IMAP. For (2) you need support from your IMAP client (offlineimap, fetchmail and one of the three popular desktop ones -- Evolution/Thunderbird/Sylpheed -- support it). I hadn't yet thought about the possibilities of compression and the disadvantages of latency. Marius Gedminas -- Bumper sticker: Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.
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