Re: encrypted pop/imap?

[Andi Hechtbauer <anti@spin.de>]

Dan Mills <dm@cs.duke.edu> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I just don't feel good sending my password in clear text over the
> network.  Is there a way to ecrypt this?  At least the authentication
> stuff--I don't really care that much about the messages themselves
> being sent in clear text.
> 
> Perhaps there's a way to tunnel pgnus' connections through ssh?  Has
> anyone done this?

I use 

ssh -C \
    -L 9143:imap.server.xy:143 \
    /usr/X11R6/bin/xbiff -file /path/to/my/procmail_log

before firing up gnus and just tell gnus to connect to 
localhost port 9143:
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
        (nnimap "hip"
                (nnimap-address "127.0.0.1")
                (nnimap-server-port 9143)
                (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "mail/*")))
        ))


As you guessed (or not :-) "procmail_log" is a nnimap group
that gnus fetches, but that's unsubscribed, so xbiff
works.

It's not a very elegant solution, but it works for me.

bye,
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