[NBLUG/talk] Remote mail access

[Andrew]

Jim Oser wrote on Tue, 7 Feb 2006 13:43:26 -0800:

> Andrew,
> 
> Thanks. NX/FreeNX is very slick.
> 
> I downloaded the Mac OS X client from http://www.nomachine.com/ 
> download.php
> 
> I then signed up for the TestDrive. http://www.nomachine.com/ 
> testdrive.php
> 
> I am now running SuseLinux via ssh from a server in Italy on my Mac  
> OS X PowerBook.
> 
> Jim

Groovy. Glad you're having fun with it.

Actually, I'm out of town, kind of near Fresno right now,
checking and sending email through my box at home via an NX
connection.

To elaborate a bit more on NX, it runs over an SSH connection.
Since most of us already have SSH up and running on our systems,
and firewalls and routers already configured for it, you can
think of NX as adding GUI capabilities to SSH. If all you want to
do is run a few console programs, plain SSH will do the job. But
if you need to run a GUI app, and you've got FreeNX installed,
you're all set.

In my case, my most favoritest mail app (Sylpheed) is GUI-only.
FreeNX allows me to keep all my mail one one machine and use
Sylpheed on that box from wherever I am.

Sorry I can't be at the meeting tonight. Have fun, everyone.

A.



> On Feb 1, 2006, at 1:29 AM, Andrew wrote:
> 
> > Lincoln Peters wrote on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:37:46 -0800:
> >
> >>> 3. VNC - I use this sometimes to respond to work emails so
> >>>    that my   response is sitting in my work box, rather than
> >>>    my home machine.   By this I mean that I will get on my
> >>>    desktop at work via VNC and   run Thunderbird from there
> >>>    to respond to an email.  Both this and   option #1 would
> >>>    allow you to read email that you had already read   but
> >>>    are stored on your home box.
> >>
> >> This might be simpler, but I'd be worried about the bandwidth
> >> requirements.
> >
> > I highly recommend that all who use VNC (or are considering it)
> > at this time to connect to remote Linux boxen take a look instead
> > at NX/FreeNX. It kicks VNC @ss in a major way. Think VNC with
> > compression so good it runs fairly well over a 56k link. And
> > that's *with* SSH encryption (VNC is unencrypted). I still have
> > dialup at home and when I go out of town I use NX to connect back
> > to my home machine to do various tasks, including collecting,
> > reading, and sending email. Everything stays on the home box. No
> > worries about syncing. VNC over such a link would be almost
> > useless.
> >
> > NX is being developed by the guys at NoMachine
> > ( http://www.nomachine.com/ ) for their commercial NX servers, but
> > they've graciously GPLed the core technology, which is what makes
> > the FreeNX server ( http://freenx.berlios.de/ ) possible. Use
> > FreeNX as your server (.debs and .rpms can be found) and grab one
> > of NoMachine's free clients (Linux, Solaris, OS X, Windows,
> > Zaurus, iPAQ, and PlayStation2 versions available) to connect to
> > it. Also, both server and client are included in recent versions
> > of Knoppix.
> >
> > LinuxJournal has a seven-part series on NX. The first article is
> > here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8477  Search the LJ
> > site for the rest.
> >
> > For DynDNS.org updating, I use ipcheck.py (it's in Debian). Nice
> > little script that's easy to use. Since I'm still on dialup, I
> > have a small bash script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that invokes
> > ipcheck so that it does its thing whenever the PPP link is
> > brought up.
> >
> > A.
> >
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