From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31755 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nuutti Kotivuori Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus Access mail spool by ssh Date: 12 Jul 2000 11:52:06 +0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87lmz7d93d.fsf@sonera.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168130 15915 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:42:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:42:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alexandre Oliva , Harry Putnam , ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1317DD051E for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 04:55:35 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAC03957; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 03:55:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 12 Jul 2000 03:54:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA28853 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 03:54:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from smtp.dave.sonera.fi (smtp.dave.sonera.fi [131.177.130.21]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D6F1D051E for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 04:55:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from kotivnu1-nb.ete.tele.fi ([131.177.214.96]:2961 "EHLO oro") by inside.dave.sonera.fi with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:54:53 +0300 Original-Received: from naked by oro with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13CIFS-0005Lm-00; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:52:06 +0300 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gro=DFjohann=27s?= message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:06:43 +0200") Original-Lines: 43 User-Agent: T-gnus/6.14.4 (based on Gnus v5.8.6) EMY/1.13.6 (Life is balance) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) APEL/10.2 MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 10) (Capitol Reef) (i386-debian-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31755 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31755 "Kai" == Kai Großjohann writes: > On 11 Jul 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jul 11, 2000, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>> But can fetchmail be used to fetch a spool >>> file from a remote machine not running a special server? >> >> Yup, as long as you can run the imapd program on the other end. >> Then, you write a script that `ssh' to the other end and runs imapd >> and tells fetchmail to use it as a plugin with preauth ssh. > > I think Harry does not want to run a food on the other end, not even > an imapd :-) > > But of course it would be the best situation. Setting up a POP server > ought to be simple enough, for example. Err. He won't be forced to run imapd as a daemon listening to an imap port. Just as a program to access mail. To clear things up: _Not_: $ telnet mail.host.foo imap2 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to oro. Escape character is '^]'. * OK mail.host.foo IMAP4rev1 v12.264 server ready _But_: $ ssh mail.host.foo mail$ /usr/sbin/imapd * PREAUTH mail.host.foo IMAP4rev1 v12.264 server ready Most imap servers are able to run from the command line and notice the situation and start up preauthenticated. And this is what can be used by fetchmail and the plugin option - and if nnimap does not support this, it would be nice. -- Naked