I have an idea on how to read email from my cell phone, I want to do
this from my main email which doesn't have a mobile portal. There is a
portal for yahoo mail, but the idea is, suppose I go out to lunch for
a couple of hours, I want to check my main email to see if anyone has
sent me any important messages and if I need to hurry back to my
computer etc.

Here's sort of what I came up with:

1. first of all, the ruby version between my laptop and my host can
vary, so I don't think I can use drb.

2. Also, I don't think I want to store the password to my main email
anyplace on my hosted site.


Given that, when I go out to lunch, I would start up a process on my
laptop that reads my email using ruby net::pop
class and then opens something like a socket to my hosted site, then
it sends the emails and as long as the socket remains open, it allows
them to be access through a cell phone browser.

 That would mean my emails are visible (read only) for a short time
until I shut down the socket connection.

 I would also password protect the access through a simple 4 digit
password, assuming I can get sessions to work with my cell phone, if
not I could possibly figure out a scheme of generating keys and
storing them in the rendered pages or something a bit complex.

 Let me know if there might be a better approach.