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.



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