Re: [Evolution-hackers] [Fwd: Re: [evolution-patches] [PATCH] IMAP preauth and subcommand connection.]

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

> It's also just occurred to me that this gives you transparent SOCKS
> support too -- just use a socksified netcat as your command...

Nod.

> >  but it will end up with a redundant host and username entry.
> 
> Well, they're not really redundant. They're made available to the
> command we run in environment variables -- and the default command is
> something like 'ssh -C -l $URLUSER $URLHOST exec /usr/sbin/imapd' which
> uses them appropriately.

Ok.  I wasn't sure it would be needed (since you're supplying the
command line anyway).

> >   And it will look a little funny if ssl isn't compiled in.
> 
> Why so? Doesn't the choice get reduced to...

Actually that comment was based on an earlier iteration of the idea,
that i subsequently changed while writing the email.  So ignore it :)

> I think so too. I'm happy to go an implement this if it's likely to be
> acceptable.

Ok, have to wait and see what people think.

 Z