external client using IMAP to access mail server

[darose at darose.net (David Rosenstrauch)]

Cole Tuininga wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 07:36 -0800, Dave Peters wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am looking for any suggestion about external mail
>> client using IMAP to access mail server. 
>> Here is what I think about this: In order to allow
>> external client using IMAP to access mail server. I'll
>> setup a proxy mail server between Firewall and
>> Internal Mail Server, so mail client can access from
>> firewall open port IMAP and point to proxy mail server
>> then forward to real mail server.
>> Which Proxy Mail Server should I use? Fetchmail or
>> SquirrelMail, sendmail, qmail or any others?
> 
> Why not just punch imap-ssl through your firewall to the mail server?


Another option is to set up a VPN (e.g., openvpn) on that box, if you're 
not comfortable opening your IMAP-SSL port to the general world.  I did 
that recently, and it works nicely.  I VPN in, and then just access the 
unencrypted IMAP port.

HTH,

DR