[ale] IMAP question on RH style distribution

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

I've googled and man'd myself into a bit of bafflement, so I wonder if I 
could borry a clue around here.

We had a lightning strike on a tree a while ago, and I'm trying to use the 
network damage as a reason to reconfigure/update/rethink how I have the 
home network setup. For the moment, because I'm so used to RH systems, I 
am either going with a FC4/5 or Centos4.

Ok. On to the current point of confusion!

Three of the four children are out of nest on their own (YEAH!), but all 
four have actively maintained email addresses here with me (which I'm 
flattered by). In the past they would ssh in and read anything which 
arrived in pine, but I'd like to extend their options to ssh and/or imap4 
in a secured fashion for accessing their email from their respective 
homes/employment. Of course, behind the firewall on the house network, 
things might be secure enough to use straight imap4 for the child still in 
nest and myself. So far, I hope I'm talking sense.

Dovecot appears to be the prefered package for the current RH like 
distributions, and claims to set itself up directly. Where I'm getting 
lost/confused is ensuring that the internet connections happen securely, 
which I think is supposed to include using openssl. From this point I 
start getting pretty lost (doing these things once every three or five 
years is not a good recipe for understanding what you are doing, 
unfortunately) 

I'd appreciate any clues or straight explaination anybody might choose to 
share. 

Thanks to the list for the use of bandwidth.

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