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title: Remote Mail
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author: Charadon
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description: How to connect to your tilde.institute e-mail address remotely.
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# Remote Mail Guide
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tilde.institute doesn't support POP or IMAP at the moment, so we'll need to use
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a little bit of a roundabout way of connecting to our mail address remotely.
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All you will need for this guide is sshfs, ssh itself, and an e-mail client
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that supports Maildir.
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## Known clients that support Maildir
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- Gnome Evolution
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- Neomutt
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- Mutt
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## Sending Mail
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To send mail, all you need to do is run this command:
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```
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ssh -nNTL 25:localhost:25 yourusername@tilde.institute
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```
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And then set your SMTP server in your mail client to localhost and use port 25.
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You will now be able to send mail.
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## Receiving Mail
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First, you need to mount your remote Maildir folder using sshfs. You can use
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this command to do that:
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```
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sshfs -v -o reconnect -o ssh_command="ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_yourkey" yourusername@tilde.institute:/home/yourusername/Maildir ~/Maildir
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```
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Then set up your mail client like you would with any other Maildir and point it
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to your mounted Maildir folder.
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### Notes
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1. This is not very mobile unfortunately, and as far as i'm aware, there is no
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Maildir supporting e-mail client for phones.
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2. The above commands assume you have a keyring installed to automatically
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unlock your keys OR a passwordless key.
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3. On some file managers such as Thunar, if sshfs can't connect to the remote
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server, it will freeze the file manager if you navigate to the folder it's
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mounted in. (In this case, since we mounted Maildir to ~/, it'll freeze in
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your home folder.)
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