On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:27:05AM +0100, Clayton, Nik [IT] wrote: > > My mail is sitting on my machine at home, in mbox format. I'm sitting > > at work, behind a firewall. My machine at home is running > > Debian Woody. > > > > I want to read and send mail, securely. > > Three options spring to mind. > > 1. SSH in to your home box, and run $MUA of choice. Probably the easiest > solution, but you must be able to ssh in to your box from your remote > location (which may not be possible).
This is what I've done in the past, but now I'm at $BigBank the firewall just says "no". > 2. Install the UW IMAP server, which expects to read mbox format files. > Install Apache + PHP + SquirrelMail + modssl. Make sure the outside > world can't reach your IMAP server, so the only access is through the > web front end. > > This requires a medium amount of work, but has the advantage that > https is allowed pretty much anywhere, and is useful even if you're > in an Internet cafe in the back of beyond somewhere. This is the solution I've gone with. Well, without modssl. Seems to be working fine. > 3. Install the UW IMAP server. Set up an SSH tunnel between your local > box and your home box. Point your local IMAP client at your end of > the tunnel, and it's magically talking to your IMAP server at home in > a secure fashion. > > This is more work than (1), but less effort than (2). You still need > SSH access to your home box though. And if I had that I'd be with option one. And tunneling through http isn't really an option. Banks (and large chip manufacturers, I've heard) don't take too kindly to anything out of the ordinary, however benign. Thanks a lot for all the suggestions. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
