From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31756 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus Access mail spool by ssh Date: 12 Jul 2000 04:26:48 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87lmz7d93d.fsf@sonera.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168131 15916 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:42:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:42:11 +0000 (UTC) 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 39D0BD051E for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:30:52 -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 GAC04338; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 06:27:21 -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 06:26:32 -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 GAA29420 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 06:26:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 013BED051E for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:26:53 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 7396 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2000 11:26:52 -0000 Original-Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 12 Jul 2000 11:26:52 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA25413; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 04:26:48 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Nuutti Kotivuori's message of "12 Jul 2000 11:52:06 +0300" Original-Lines: 43 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31756 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31756 Nuutti Kotivuori writes: [...] > > 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. This looks like an interesting approach. I'll have to get an imap program installed, but before I do: It isn't clear to me how fetchmail fits in here. Reading man fetchail, particularly the `--plugin ' section: " . . . . . . . Fetchmail will write to the plugin's stdin and read from the plugin's stdout. It appears that the fetchmail addressed here will be running on the parent desktop (in this case, $remote) or `mail.host.foo' so does it just put its standard out into the ssh tunnel in the same way as the mail-sources prescript `cat' command does, or is fetchmail asked to deliver to sendmail on the local machine? It sounds somewhat confusing. Can you describe the process in a bit more detail?