If you're running kerberos V and your mail server supports it (UW-IMAP
does), you could try my GSS authentication patch for mutt, which I just
wrote last weekend. It works well for me.
If anyone's interested in it, ask me. I'll set up a web page...
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian D. Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, 24 June, 1999 23:37
Subject: Re: secure tunnel and IMAP
> 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
>
