On 2017-08-01 15:17, Yubin Ruan wrote: > I am wondering whether it is possible to point Mutt to connect to a > VPN client that is listening at a local port whenever I want to have > direct imap access to my mail server. Currently I configure Mutt to > connect to the Gmail server using gmail directly with imap. But as > gmail is kind of blocked in my company so connection is slow. I have > to use a VPN. I have setup a VPN client locally. What is left to do is > to point Mutt to use that VPN client as a network interface for > connection so that things can speed up.
In addition to the advice already given by Patrick (good, but somewhat indirect): Run a long lived ssh process on the other side of the VPN with port forwarding (that is, the -L option, or probably multiple -L options). Bind to local address of that to the VPN server address (I'll call that A_vpn). Point the remote to the Google (or whatever) servers. Then tell mutt to use the fake servers on A_vpn you have just set up. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. Do obvious transformation on domain to reply privately _only_ on Usenet.
