Tunelling nnimap through ssh shell (Was: nnimap-authinfo-file question)

[Doug Alcorn <doug@lathi.net>]

Andi Hechtbauer <anti@spin.de> writes:

> It's easier and more convenient of course to have your ssh keys and
> ssh-agent set up right (cf. ssh(1) "public-key cryptography", 
> ssh-agent(1), and ssh-add(1)) and just 
> 
> (setq imap-shell-program '( "ssh -x -C remote.imap.host /usr/sbin/imapd" ))
> 
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>       '(
>         (nnimap "host"
>                 (nnimap-address "remote.imap.host")
>                 (nnimap-stream shell)
>                 (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "mail/*"))
>         )
> ))
> 
> in your .gnus.el; So you M-x gnus and it just opens a ssh
> connection and starts your imapd preauthenticated. No need for
> username and password at all.

Thanks for reposting this.  I was happy to read it and happier to see
it working for me.

The only problem I ran into is that my ssh shells timeout with no
activity.  The ends up with messages about the stream being currupt
and then showing the ssh connection reset message (sorry I don't have
a copy of the exact message now).

Noticing another thread about problems with nnimap connections timeing
out, would it be possible to have nnimap send a keepalive message to
the server?
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