[Wylug-discuss] EeePC and Samba - SOLVED

[Jim Jackson]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Monday 14 January 2008 11:26:16 Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> > On 14 Jan 2008, at 11:06, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >
> > There's thunderbird on the Eee and that talks happily enough to an IMAP
> > server (and also to a authenticated SMTP server for sending). Works well
> > enough on my Eee although I've not used it to any great degree because
> > thunderbird is not the best client for use on a very restricted size
> > desktop.
> >
> > Setting up the IMAP server is another, more complex, but not rocket
> > science issue.  Depends very much on what you are starting from.
> >
> I have both KMail and Thunderbird working with my imap server - that part is
> no problem.  It's remote access that I'm looking for - when I'm away from
> home.  Host-to-host VNC, I think it is.

As long as you configure your acess router to route incoming imap
connections from the internet to your imap server, all should work. VNC
is irrelevant. IMAP works from clien to server over the internet.