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

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 16:29, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> The fact that imapd can be run this way doesn't necessarily mean it's a
> common setup.  How do people who run other mail clients (besides pine)
> do it?

With mutt, you add some magic to .muttrc; I looked up the precise
details once but don't remember. Other MUAs I haven't played with.

> Also, do we really need to be able to specify an arbitrary command to
> start the connection?

> If we are going to have something like this, it should probably be in an
> advanced tab and just have a "use SSH to connect" checkbox or something
> like that.  Otherwise you are cluttering the UI with cryptic settings
> that most users don't understand.

Well, it already defaults to SSH if you just click the box. I've seen it
used with ssh, rsh, krsh and fsh, and I've currently got Evo at home
running a shell script which does 'if there's a SSH tunnel use it else
make one'.

I think that option is useful -- although I don't care whether it's
visible from the GUI. I don't think the GUI is particularly scary though
-- see it at http://www.infradead.org/~dwmw2/evo-shot.jpeg

> Also, it should work properly even if you don't have ssh-agent set up,
> otherwise things get confusing.

It'll never try talking to the tty from which Evolution was started; I
made sure of that. It'll _work_ as long as it either doesn't need to
interact with the user or ssh-askpass is working -- which should cover
99% of cases. In the others it'll fail gracefully (although hints on
catching stderr and bringing up a dialog box would be appreciated to
make it _more_ graceful).

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dwmw2