On 7/25/2011 1:30 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 09:36 -0700, Galen Seitz wrote: >> Tim Wescott wrote: >>> With my latest update (to Ubuntu 11.04), I changed to Evolution from >>> Thunderbird. Hopefully this'll end up being a good idea. One of the >>> things that indicates that it is is that I can now remote shell into my >>> work machine from my laptop and successfully run Evolution. (I used to >>> be able to do this with Thunderbird but it broke over a year ago). >> >> While I agree that you should be able to run Thunderbird(and >> Evolution) remotely, you're going to chew up bandwidth shoving >> graphics over the network. Not a problem for a LAN, but painful on a >> slower network. Are you running an IMAP or POP server? Why not >> forward the ports you need over ssh and configure your mail client to >> use the forwarded ports? >> > > This is strictly on a LAN. I normally work out of my office in a > detached garage, but find it convenient to check email before breakfast > and in the evenings from the house. > > I'm not running any servers -- just using what's available from my ISP. >
Evolution starts several other processes, ssh knows this and won't close the channel until those processes exit. The evolution processes stay around even when you quit the program. SSH -n -X user@host will tell SSH to not care about these other processes. Even on a LAN you might have a better remote desktop experience using VNC. SSH to the remote node, start vnc-server. On your local desktop use vnc-viewer remotehost:1 You can just leave evolution running then and reconnect to VNC whenever you need to check mail. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
