Secure Email While traveling

[dale]

John Garmany wrote:
> I am looking at ways to both send and retrieve email while traveling.  
> Since I use hotel internet connections and public wireless connection, I 
> am looking at a way to secure the connection.  My traveling laptop is 
> windows.
> 
> My idea is this.
> 
> 1.  Connect using ssh to the Linux server with a couple of tunnels from 
> local ports to the mail ports. (25 Sendmail, 143 IMAP, 110 POP3)
> 2.  Point my email programs (Outlook for work, Thunderbird for 
> personnel) to the local ports connected to the tunnel
> 3.  Send and recieve mail.
John,
	As others have mentioned, this works well.  I use this method to check 
my home mail while at work.  Another idea is to setup secure 
smtp/imap/pop (ports 465/995/993).  This can be accomplished with SME 
server and the contrib at http://www.pagefault.org/howto/securemail.shtml

Thanks,

Dale