[Mageia-discuss] Remote login

[Oliver Burger]

Am 30.03.2012 23:22, schrieb Marc Paré:
> When I will be away, I will need access to my TBird that has been left
> running open collecting/filtering the mail. I will need to access
> Thunderbird and check on my inboxes and do some corresponding with groups.
>
> Now that I think of it, perhaps ssh access to an "already-running"
> programme would not work -- I am not sure. I have used ssh on my home
> LAN to work on one of the computers on the LAN but never with a
> programmed that has already been turned on.
>
> I'll take a closer look at x2go (their website is under heavy
> construction) but it looks like, for the time being, working something
> out with TeamViewer looks like the easiest of the methods to use.
>
Ok, x2go won't work here, because it starts a session of its own.

But in the long run, wouldn't it be better to use some server side 
filtering?
Perhaps setting up an imap server? But I don't have much experience on that.

Oliver