On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 18:42 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Anyway, how would I access mail through SSH? 'ssh $mailserver dovecot > --exec-mail imap' is to start the remote mail server, isn't it?
No, it gives you an IMAP prompt directly. Your mail client runs the command and uses its stdin/stdout instead of making a TCP connection to a listening IMAP dæmon... $ ssh twosheds exec dovecot --exec-mail imap * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS] Logged in as dwmw2 (Almost) all decent mail clients support this method of access; how you configure it varies. In Evolution it's under the 'receiving options' tab, called "Use custom command to connect to server". In Alpine it's rsh-command and rsh-path. In mutt I think it's the 'tunnel' option. > I can do some socat tricks to access SSH servers, but I haven't tried > other ports. You don't need other ports; just ssh. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
