Re: [Evolution] imaps over a firewall?

[Lonnie Borntreger <email borntreger com>]

Continuing the topic of using ssh, here is what I used to do (server
named have been changed to protect the innocent).

Say that your external IMAP server is mail.mail.com, and you have sshd
running on server.my.com (both external to the firewall):

$-> ssh -L 5143:mail.mail.com:143 server.my.com

Once the ssh connection is up, local port 5143 is mapped to the external
IMAP server's IMAP port through the ssh "tunnel".  Add a new account to
evolution with the server set to localhost:5143 and you are all set.

You can add the -L part to your ssh config file, if you wish.... and you
can add multiple ones, like an SMTP entry, another mail server......

For IMAPS, of course, you would use port 993 instead of 143.

Lonnie