Re: offlineimap via ssh

["Benjamin M. A'Lee" <bma+lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:23:06AM +0100, Gour wrote:
> Hi!
> (Tried twice via gmane, but didn't work...)
> 
> Recently I switched to emacs and I'm considering to switch to gnus as
> my main mailer. The recommended setup is to fetch mail (with getmail),
> sort (eg. maildrop) and deliver into my desktop ~/Maildir and run
> local imap server (dovecot) so gnus can access it.
> 
> However, when I'm on the road, I'd like to use similar setup on my
> laptop machine and sync email on both machines.
> 
> I've running ssh on my desktop so I can log from my laptop when being
> remote, and wonder how to do offlineimap from laptop to my desktop via
> ssh?
> 
> Do you have any better idea to sync between the laptop & desktop?
An SSH tunnel?

ssh -L 143:mail.somewhere.com:143 mail.somewhere.com

Then connect to localhost with offlineimap.

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