Re: [Evolution] evo redirected with X11

[Bret Mogilefsky <mogul-evolution gelatinous com>]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:05:01PM -0400, Mark Neill wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Bret Mogilefsky wrote:
> > Or just redirect your IMAP or POP server with ssh and run evolution
> > locally.
>
> Huh?
>
> He dosn't say he's running it remotely because that's how he access his
> servers - his mail program is on a remote machine, and he runs it from
> that machine.  Redirecting your POP/IMAP services from remote to local
> won't make his X session run any faster from the remote machine to the
> local machine.

I'm saying that if he redirects the ports back over SSH, the only traffic over
the network is the mail itself, and he won't have to run his mail program
remotely.  X is a bandwidth pig, especially with complex UIs like Evolution
redrawing things quite frequently.

For example, on my machine (rodan) I do this:
   ssh -L imap:mailserver.example.com:imap example.com

...then run evolution on rodan, locally.  I point evolution at localhost as
the IMAP server, and everything works.  ssh forwards evolution's connection
over the SSH tunnel to the IMAP port on mailserver.example.com, and it's as
if I was reading mail from example.com.

> This is why I use Pine for reading mail at home, then suck Pine's mail
> folders into my mailprog at home - because my mail is, well, at home, not
> here at work with me :)

If you do it this way, you can read remote mail from home, using evolution,
without doing remote X display at all.

Bret
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