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 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
