Evolution and IMAP and SSH
From BNL Physics Computing
You can use Evolution as you email client and access internal IMAP servers via SSH tunnels as described here. Any hosts or ports used below follow that topics's conventions
The information you need to give is:
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Identity
- Email Address
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USERNAME@bnl.gov
The rest are optional.
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Receiving Email
- Server Type
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IMAP - Server
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localhost:10993 - Username
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USERNAME - Security
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SSL encryption - Authentication Type
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Password
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Sending Email
- Server Type
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SMTP - Server
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localhost:2525 - Use Secure Connection
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No encryption
For the last, remember it will be encrypted via SSH over the internet, sent in plaintext to bnl.gov, and of course in plaintext from there to its recipeients.
