Command line check gmail

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Donn wrote:

> My brother-in-law is renting a virtual server and it runs Debian (I think)
> - so I would ssh into that and setup the cron on that machine so that it
> keeps the gmail account alive.

If you can ssh into it,
1) ssh into it with port forwarding.
2) Then use a browser on your box with the local port which maps to the port
of the ssh box.
3) Keep accessing gmail.

You can also replace step 1 by:
1) X11 forwarding and install a browser on the ssh box and see the display
on your local box.


HTH,
Ritesh