mutt supports access to imapd server via ssh, like pin.e The configuration line is (from the online documentation to mutt 1.3.7)
account-hook imap://host2/ 'set tunnel="ssh host2 /usr/libexec/imapd"' On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 01:44:14 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: imap server": > Hi > > An example of UW-imapd/pine "integration": > > When UW-imapd is invoked from a local shell: > > [tzafrir@yarden tzafrir]$ /usr/sbin/imapd > * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 IDLE NAMESPACE MAILBOX-REFERRALS SCAN SORT > THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] Pre-authenticated > user tzafrir yarden IMAP4rev1 2001.315mdk at Sun, 17 Feb 2002 01:35:06 > +0200 (IST) > > This means that I'm already authenticated as "tzafrir", and I don't have > to login. This can be handy for people who already have shell access and > normally authenticate using a ssh public key. > > Pine supports such access method to an imap server. I couldn't find any > trace to that in the user interface and on-line help, but the .pinerc file > does include ssh_command, which is documented there, and it is documented > elsewhere that ssh authentication (as well as rsh authentication) is > attempted before plain text authentication is attempted. > > Any other mailer supports this? Any other mail server? > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dr. Zvi Har'El mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Mathematics tel:+972-54-227607 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology fax:+972-4-8324654 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/ Haifa 32000, ISRAEL "If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all." -- Thumper (1942) Sunday, 5 Adar 5762, 17 February 2002, 9:44AM ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
