[PLUG] Sent Mail + Postfix
Brian Beattie
beattie at beattie-home.net
Fri Apr 11 17:13:02 UTC 2003
On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:01, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Beattie <beattie at beattie-home.net> writes:
>
> >> You can use port-forwarding with SSH for GUI clients.
>
> Brian> Yes you could in theory, have you ever tried to run, say,
> Brian> evolution over ssh? Makes outlook look speedy.
>
> I used to run X11 emacs over ssh on a 33kbit modem and it was
> tolerable, though it took a while (~2-5 minutes, IIRC) to start up.
> With broadband, I hardly notice I'm not local.
well emacs is not evolution. I don't use emacs, but I suspect that
emacs does not use a lot of x bandwidth with decorations. runinig
evolution over the internet to my home machine 144kbps connection is
intolerable, (minutes to come up).
>
>
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