On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:51:16 +0100 Hans Ekbrand wrote:
HE> I want to try out gnus for reading email. Currently, I use mutt with IMAP over ssh like this:
HE> set tunnel="ssh -q
code.cjb.net 'export MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir; /usr/lib/dovecot/imap --exec-mail imap'"
HE> After reading the documentation of gnus, I tried the following:
HE> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "textnews.news.cambrium.nl"))
HE> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
HE> '(
HE> (nnimap "
code.cjb.net"
HE> (nnimap-stream shell)
HE> (imap-shell-program "ssh -q
code.cjb.net 'export MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir; /usr/lib/dovecot/imap --exec-mail imap'")
HE> )
HE> (nnimap "test"
HE> (nnimap-address "localhost")
HE> (nnimap-server-port 1234)
HE> )
HE> )
HE> )
HE> While the second entry "test", works it requires:
HE> a. a working ssh-tunnel before I start gnus
HE> b. that the imap server is configured to listen on a port and to authenticate
HE> c. that gnus manages (asks me about) username and password for the imap server
HE> All of which are unnecessary in my current setup (the mutt-onliner above).
Try a standalone shell script to set up the tunnel. When that works,
you can just call it from Gnus. I never had luck with opening SSH
directly. Here's what I used to use:
#!/bin/sh
ssh -x z@
x.y.com /home/lifelogs/bin/imapd | tee /tmp/imap-run
The tee was so I could see what happened on the server side. I needed
this because Courier IMAP was not supported at the hosting company I had
back then :)
Ted
