On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 11:11:19PM -0400, Adam Lazur wrote:
> I've looked at still attempting to move my email over to imap, and am
> a little weary of sending my password over the internet in
> plaintext. Is there a method currently available in mutt to setup a
> secure tunnel (via ssh) to the imapd before I open an imap mailbox?
I have the following in a script:
ssh -f -L 4143:imapserver:143 sshhost 'sleep 5 </dev/null >/dev/null'
mutt $*
The server is then referred to as {localhost:4143}. This is not
ideal, but it gets the job done. I would love to hear if someone has
come up with something better.
Brian
