Re: [Evolution] "Run before connect" feature

[Chris Tooley <chris tooley com>]

What about entering a passphrase for the id?

Chris

On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 15:46, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 10:25, Chris Tooley wrote:
> > Evolution Gurus:
> >
> >     I use IMAP to connect to my Lotus Domino server and it works
> > wonderfully.  I absolutely love the way it's worked out for me. 
> > However, we are putting some machines together for staff to have at
> > home.  I would like to set the machines up to connect to the IMAP server
> > before I give them to the person.  However, since I require tunneling
> > IMAP through SSH to get to the IMAP (and LDAP for that matter) server I
> > was wondering something.  I know when I run "evolution" it fires off a
> > bunch of different parts.  Would it be possible to add another thing to
> > fire off with that (an ssh client with tunneling).  That would be very
> > handy to have set up for them so they don't have to know anything at all
> > about ssh happening.
> >
> >     I was thinking about a shell script to perform the same basic function
> > but that may be trickier.
>
> I don't see why that would be trickier.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> ssh -n -Lport1:imaphost:imap remotehost sleep 1000000 &
> sshpid=$!
> sleep 5  ## Give the ssh time to connect
> evolution
> kill $sshpid
>
>    - Ian