[svlug] PDA-friendly webmail?

[Florin Andrei]

Bill Ward wrote:
> You could always install an IMAP client on your Palm.

True, but that means one more service (IMAP) exposed to the Internet. 
I'd rather not do that, since httpd is already accessible and I actually 
tend to trust it more than the IMAP server. Sure, the webmail component 
introduces its own issues (and needs to be trusted before exposing it to 
the Internet) but...

I don't know, IMAP (even SSL IMAP) accessible directly from the Internet 
feels wrong from a security perspective.

Sure, I can always add port knocking or something, but that just adds 
one more layer of complexity and the client platform does not lend 
itself easily to something like this.

Another idea is to run some sort of VPN server that has clients 
available on Palm OS. That would be either something based on PPTP or on 
IPSec. But the thing is, I already have OpenVPN installed, there's no 
OpenVPN client for Palm OS, and I'd rather not stack up VPN servers for 
no good reason - same justification, don't want to expose more services 
to the Internet.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/