Mail ???

[Boris Glawe]

I'm not sure whether I'm right, since I don't use evolution, but I think 
evlolution does not use a ~/mail directory, but stores it's data (mail, 
addresse, etc) in it's own datastructure. I think evolution creates it's 
own directory in the user's home directory.

Do you have an X-Server on your local machine when you login to your 
machine via ssh (are you using linux ?)?

If yes try this own:

ssh -XC username at machine

and start evolution at the command line as if you were working locally. 
The evolution window  will then be send to your local machine tunneled 
and securely encryted through ssh.

As an alternative, you can say

ssh -XC username at machine evolution

which will not give you a shell, but starts evolution directly

The -X option means, that ssh shall tunnel X-programs to your local 
machen (that's what you want)
The -C option means that ssh shall compress the data before sending it 
(which is not necessary, but speeds up things when using a dialup 
connection).

greets Boris