[plug] client-server e-mail query system?

[James Devenish]

In message <5.1.0.14.2.20030710150449.0275f800 at cyllene.uwa.edu.au>
on Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
> The concept of running the mail client on the same host as
> the mail server is intriguing.

I'm lucky enough to be able to read my five most important e-mail
accounts this way.

> And access it from the remote (thinly-connected) machine how?
> VPN of some sort.   Sorry, a mental block.

I use OpenSSH, personally (logging in to UNIX/Linux hosts).