Re: IMAP/SSL with gnus

[Andi Hechtbauer <anti@spin.de>]

>>>>> Alexander Kotelnikov writes:
>>>>> On Thu, 08 Aug 2002 21:14:32 +0200
>>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
    SJ>
    >>>>> May be to switch to (nnimap-stream shell) with ssh, but it
    >>>>> do not work for me, may be some tweaking is needed.
    SJ>  SSH port forwarding can be recommended.
    >>>  Is there any working example of configuration?

    SJ>  Run this on your client
    SJ> ssh -L 1430:yourmailserver:143 yxa.extundo.com
    SJ> and then connect to port 1430 on localhost with Gnus.

    AK> Ah... this approach has some disadvantages: 1. One have to
    AK> establish ssh connection before starting gnus 2. gnus is too
    AK> smart and think it is plugged even if you put it into
    AK> unplugged, when you conncet to localhost

    AK> So the thing that I really would like to work is
    AK> (nnimap-stream shell) with ssh. Is it possible?

I think it depends on your imapd on the remote end.  It has to be run
"preauthenticated.  I used to use uw imapd, which has this ability,
but wouldn't know how to do it with cyrus, e.g. - but fortunately
cyrus knows imaps.


(setq imap-shell-program 
 '( "ssh -x -C imap.server.xy /usr/sbin/imapd" ))

and

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '(
 	(nnimap "imap1"
 		(nnimap-address "imap.server.xy")
 		(nnimap-stream shell)
 		(nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "mail/*"))
 		)))

was all I had to do to make it work with uw imapd.

HTH,
Andi