On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:07:15PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Why?
Accessability. Currently, I use key based ssh access to get to my email
from a remote system. This requires some sort of SSH client and a key.
I have a USB dongle to carry the key and a copy of putty since windows
systems don't include an ssh client.
However it requires me to have the dongle with me. It also requires
access to a USB port which is often but not 100% possible.
> A local imapd. At least uw-imapd and dovecot support a
> "pre-authenticated" mode of running the imapd by the user. Thus you can
> connect with mutt from either localhost or with a remote host with
> ssh/pubkey without typing/storing a password.
The problem with that is that I need to have a runable copy of Mutt.
AFIK there is none for windows and I can't be sure that a copy for
a Linux system will work on what I can find when I get there.
The last time I was away from home for a day and wanted to get to my
email, I found myself in a room full of linux machines with ssh version
1 clients and only ssh version 2 keys on my dongle. I've since added
and old style key and a copy of putty.
However if I were to forget the key, be in a place that did not allow them,
or only have access to a web browser, I would be out of luck. I guess
I can live without email for a whole day, I do it every shabbat, but
it's not fun. :-(
> Shouldn't be an issue. This is a matter of setting up apache properly.
> Note the limitations that a proper SSL setup has (no name-based virtual
> hosting)
I have that set up (https) and PHP with IMAP and IMAP-SSL support installed.
> What imapd? Can you give more details?
imap-2004g:
University of Washington IMAP toolkit
Version 2005 of IMAP toolkit
Copyright 1988-2005 University of Washington
> uw-imapd is generally very unefficient with large mbox folders, as you
> probably know.
Looks like this is the one. Any suggestions for a different imap deamon?
Thanks, Geoff.
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