On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:00:07AM +0000, Martin Ebourne wrote: > Is it possible to use Binc IMAP over ssh?
In theory, yes. > I guess really the question is can a user manually run a Binc IMAP > daemon on the terminal. If so then it should work over ssh as well. Yes. But the problem is that bincimap-up passes lots of state to bincimapd through the use of environment variables. In 1.2 these are encoded in a "proprietary" way. In 1.3 not as much so IIRC. But they still need to be set for bincimapd to run properly. No bincimap-cwdup exists, but I think it would be a neat addition to Binc. > As an example, Evolution lets you configure a 'Custom command to > connect to server' and the example is: > > ssh -C -l %u %h exec /usr/sbin/imapd > > This should let me use imap securely over SSH without needing to > input my password. I already have it working over imaps but tire of > entering my password each time I start evo. Also it would mean I > could access mail remotely (I don't expose imap/s externally). I think the best way to get this working is to add support for running Binc from a shell, as you wrote. A clone of bincimap-up is required to do this presently, but it doesn't need any authentication and it can just set everything up, then exec() bincimapd, so zero footprint too. I think it's a cool idea. > I've tried a whole bunch of variations of the above command running > bincimapd and bincimap-up and nothing I've tried works. If it is > possible, what command should I use? Right, you're missing the environment that bincimap-up sets up for bincimapd. I'll take a quick look at the code and see if I can hack something up. //Peter
