After searching the mutt-user archives as best I could, here's a question I, as a new
Mutt user, haven't yet been able to resolve:
I've got a Red Hat Linux 6.2 box at home (this box is behind a firewall which gets IP
dialtone from a cable modem). It collects email from my various accounts and serves
them up to the machines on my home LAN via an IMAP server. The firewall deliberately
blocks folks outside of my home LAN from accessing my mail. Works great. Up until
today, I've been telnetting to my home machine from work, and running Mutt over the
telnet session. I've configured Mutt to use my home IMAP server. Again, works great.
However, it's insecure (transmitting passwords and cleartext over the open Net, etc).
I've configured OpenSSH at home, and I'm using PuTTY at work to establish a secure
terminal session from work to home. Yet again, works great. HOWEVER:
When I telnet into my home machine, I run mutt from the command line. It comes up
immediately, automatically connects to my IMAP server, and allows me to browse my IMAP
folders. When I SSH into my machine, running mutt from the command line results in a
long series of .muttrc errors (mostly regarding my PGP commands, which some other
errors mixed in). I then am told "Secure login is unavailable. Use cleartext login?
([n]/y):". Finally, when I answer "y", when I attempt to change folders (by pressing
"c"), and then attempt to browse my folders (by pressing "?"), I get this message:
"IMAP folder browsing is not currently supported".
I've checked the environment variables both in telnet shells and in SSH shells;
everything appears to be the same, with the exception of the "SSH2_CLIENT" variable
set in the SSH shell. Unsetting this variable has no effect on the problem.
Finallly, I thought perhaps that this was some strange interaction I'm seeing with
PuTTY. However, if I use PuTTY to SSH into my box, then telnet to localhost from the
same PuTTY terminal, the problem goes away. Huh?!?
Thanks very much in advance for anyone's help on this. Mutt's been such a good
program to me so far.
B-
