Re: mutt, IMAP and ssh

[Spiro Trikaliotis <trik-news@xxxxxx>]

Hello Chris,

a hint from a posting on this mailing list (I don't remember who wrote
that):

* On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 09:21:39AM +0000 Chris Green wrote:
 
> So, what wierd incantations do I need to get a connection from mutt to
> the remote IMAP server using ssh?  The IMAP daemon on the remote
> system is /usr/bin/imapd.

set tunnel="ssh -q HOST /usr/sbin/imapd"

obviously, HOST has to be replaced, and you must be sure that the
command does not need any keystrokes. For this, I'd try it out from the
CLI before

HTH,
   Spiro.

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