Accessing mail remotely

[Derek Broughton]

Mitch Thompson wrote:

> My personal setup is that I have fetchmail pulling my email off of my
> ISP's mailserver and storing it in mbox format on my local computer (I
> have a cablemodem account).  Then, I set up the imapd on my home
> computer and turned on the SSL port (993). I then forward access to this
> port through my firewall.  Now, no matter where I am in the world, if I
> can get internet access, I can read my email.

I'd do the same if inbound access to my home computer was a possibility. 
It's a good solution.
-- 
derek