Ximian Evolution client / local imapd

[Simon Matter]

> 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"

Don't even think about running imapd by hand, only cyrus master can do it.
It simply won't work.

Simon

>
> 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.
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