[BBLISA] Re: Questions about your web hosting plans (fwd)

[jabr at abreau.net (John Abreau)]

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 12:56, Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> 
> I want to relinquish myself from maintaining a mail server at home, and
> pair.com seems to have great prices and a good reputation, but cannot
> provide me with a secure connection to transfer my local IMAP email to a
> potential account I would create with them.   My goal was to use a local
> email client like Eudora, Netscape Messenger, Outlook Express, etc.

If you have ssh access to their server, you can do what I do. I 
set up a pair of ssh tunnels, one for IMAP and one for SMTP, and 
then point my mail reader at localhost. One advantage is when I'm 
on the road, I don't have to open up relaying for each wi-fi network 
that I connect through. 

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