From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31703 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus Access mail spool by ssh Date: 08 Jul 2000 22:03:57 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168083 15581 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:41:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:41:23 +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 3CEA0D051E for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:20:49 -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 JAC24507; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 09:17:17 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 09 Jul 2000 09:16:15 -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 JAA25049 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 09:16:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mx1.hcvlny.cv.net (mx1.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.112.76]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B95D051E for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:16:35 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from s1.optonline.net (s1.optonline.net [167.206.112.6]) by mx1.hcvlny.cv.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA25981 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:16:34 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from hunt108-151.optonline.net (d34-75.hntnny.optonline.net [24.188.34.75]) by s1.optonline.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA03438 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:16:34 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from ats@localhost) by hunt108-151.optonline.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA06424; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 23:22:07 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: rita.springies.com: ats set sender to ats@acm.org using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "08 Jul 2000 14:02:27 -0700" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0806 (Gnus v5.8.6) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 35 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31703 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31703 Harry Putnam writes: > Now I want to have a laptop running FreeBSD 4.0 networked to desktop > running Redhat linux, be able to view/manipulate mail on the parent machine > but don't want to setup pop, imap or special sendmail stuff. I > don't want more daemons running that can be exploited from the internet. > And haven't really looked into firewall technique. Well, first, you should _really_ look into the firewall technique. Otherwise, you'll be jumping through hoops that nobody else has considered, because they've all set up a firewall and forgotten about it. If you don't want to do that... well, you could use the ssh to set up a ppp tunnel between your computers, and run NFS, imap, or whatever over that. In some cases, that makes sense (ie, laptop halfway across the continent, over very untrusted ethernet). But not in a home network. Unless you have a very untrusted home network (ie, both machines are just connected via a hub to a cable modem) it's much more convenient to set up some firewall rules on the host connected to the internet, and trust the internal network. ssh was _not_ designed to be a mail protocol, and as Kai pointed out, locking issues will be a bitch. I'm not sure precisely how you are expecting ssh to access /var/spool/mail on the other host, as it doesn't set up any file access from this side... you could send over ssh parent "cat /var/spool/mail/ats", but editing the file will not be easy. You could do some weird use of files to lock on the other side, and scp the file over... but it would be a mess. -- Alan Shutko - In a variety of flavors! 125 days, 13 hours, 37 minutes, 6 seconds till we run away. A PC is for manipulation of data, not the manipulation of thought.