Ximian Evolution client / local imapd

[Ondrej Sury]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 21:18 +0000, Brian Huffman wrote:
> All,
> 
> Evolution has an option to remotely connect to an imap server that you otherwise
> can not connect to by using means such as ssh.  It allows a "custom command" to
> connect to the imap server.  The default is:  
> 
> "ssh -C -l %u %h exec /usr/sbin/imapd"

Why would you want to do that instead of using IMAP SSL (or TLS)?

Cyrus servers are ment not to be accessible by ordinary users (ie. more
secure to local attacks).

O.
-- 
Ondrej Sury <ondrej at sury.org>
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