Accessing mail remotely

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> On 2/19/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>> > I currently use Thunderbird 1.5 as my mail client at home on my
>> > Kubuntu 5.10 system. Often, I find that I need to access my mail at
>> > the university. I am trying to decide what options I have available to
>> > me:
>> >
>> These days, almost every mail server offers IMAP as well as POP.  Can you
>> just leave your mail on the university server, and access it via IMAP
>> from both home and U?
> 
> I'd rather not for performance and reliability issues.

Performance _could_ be an issue, but there's no reason reliability should. 
I would argue that your options of VNC and PHP/Apache (how you'd do the
latter when you can't install software at the U. is beyond me) are both
going to offer their own performance problems.
-- 
derek