Re: [Evolution] imap over ssh (not tunnel)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 05:15, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> How about a possibility to open IMAP connection by executing:
>
> ssh user host imap 2>~/imap.log
>
> With a nice GUI dialog asking the password.

And how do you pass the password to ssh?  Normally it opens your tty and
asks it directly doesn't it?

> I think this is the most secure way to talk to imap server as it doesn't
> require any other authentication than the ssh which I use to login to that
> computer all the time anyway. And as an extra it doesn't even require any
> imap daemon running when you're not using it.
>
> So, any chance that anyone would be interested of coding that? :) I'd rather
> keep updating evolution with apt-get than compiling it with my own
> kludges. :)

It doesn't seem a particularly useful way to run imap for most people.