[Evolution] Q: How to access mail server behind firewall with ssh?

[Andrew Bainbridge-Smith <Andrew Bainbridge-Smith csiro au>]

Greetings All,

A little background in order to pose my question.  I use evolution on my
work machine via IMAP to the corporate Exchange servers.  The
corporation firewalls, however, blocks the IMAP ports on the exchange
servers to the internet and dialup connections.  I would like to read my
email at home (using evolution) and I connect to my internal work
machine using ssh.  Obviously the internal machine can access the
exchange servers and I store most of my mail in local folders on this
machine.

My question is: "Is there a straight forward way of accessing my local
mail boxes and is there a way of accessing the exchange IMAP server?" 
The one restriction is that "only when hell freezes over" will corporate
IT allow IMAP connection from my dialup home connection.

Thanks in advance for all suggestions,
        Andrew
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Dr Andrew Bainbridge-Smith
Senior Research Engineer 
Machine Vision Group
CSIRO Manufacturing Science and Technology
Australia