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. -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug