Connecting to cyrus using nnimap-stream type shell

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

I'm trying to connect to a cyrus imapd using nnimap-stream shell, with
ssh as the underlying transport.

The secondary server entry is
      (nnimap "doohan"
		(nnimap-address "doohan.somewhere.org")
		(nnimap-stream shell))

(address anonymized to protect the innocent)

The user name on the client machine is "sba", the user name on doohan
is "sb".  I have an ~/.authinfo containing

machine doohan.somewhere.org login sb
machine doohan login sb

So far, I have tried

(add-to-list 'imap-shell-program
	     "ssh %s telnet localhost imap")

then

(add-to-list 'imap-shell-program
	     "ssh -l %l %s telnet localhost imap")

then

(add-to-list 'imap-shell-program
	     "ssh -l sb %s telnet localhost imap")

then

(add-to-list 'imap-shell-program
	     "ssh -l sb doohan.somewhere.org telnet localhost imap")

but Gnus is still hanging, trying to connect to doohan on startup.

I have verified that the command 
	ssh -l sb doohan.somewhere.org telnet localhost imap
works from the command line, with the response:

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to doohan.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK doohan Cyrus IMAP4 v1.5.19 server ready

Is it the stuff preceeding "* OK" the imap backend croaks on?

Thanx!


- Steinar