[maemo-developers] Modest/TinyMail problems (continue from the blog comments)

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:25:18AM +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 10:48 +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > I'm currently tunneling imap through ssh with compression enabled.
> 
> That's a good temporary solution indeed. Note that your SSL layer might
> already do compression, in which case the SSH tunnel will just add
> latency to your connection.

I like SSH tunnels for my IMAP connections because (1) I don't have to
set up an externally-visible IMAPS port, and (2) I can use SSH key
authentication (and therefore ssh-agent) instead of a username/password
pair for IMAP.  For (2) you need support from your IMAP client
(offlineimap, fetchmail and one of the three popular desktop ones --
Evolution/Thunderbird/Sylpheed -- support it).

I hadn't yet thought about the possibilities of compression and the
disadvantages of latency.

Marius Gedminas
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