[ILUG] Help sought with temporary re-location ...

[Brendan Minish]

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 13:38 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm going to Italy for a few weeks.
> I hope to have broadband there.
> Assuming that is so, I'm wondering about a couple of things.
> 
> 1. Email.
> I have an IMAP (dovecot) server on my desktop,
> which I use for accessing mail on my laptop in my house.
> 
> I guess I should use encrypted IMAP, on port 993?
> I've opened a peephole there on my ADSL modem.
> 
> But can I actually use encryped IMAP with dovecot?
> If so, how do I set it up?
> I looked at /etc/dovecot.conf but it appears to be infinitely long.


Yes you can use secure imap with dovecot 

near the beginning of dovecot.conf 
protocols = imap pop3 imaps pop3s

basically in my config I have pop3 secure pop3 imap and secure imap

Why not just use a VPN to your home machine that way you can access the
newsgroups too and you would have no issues with dovecot being open to
the outside world 

Expect eircom DSL to go down about 2 days after you leave and not return
until you have been home 10 days ;-)