On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 15:27 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > in this way _no_ mail reader needs extending because each remote service is > apparently a local ordinary service. > > I find it extremely convenient. It's a cute hack, but it doesn't seem to be as convenient as the way that Evolution, pine and mutt do it for me transparently. Especially as the mail servers I use tend not to have an IMAP dæmon listening at all, and as it still doesn't perform the authentication for you in the way that using SSH directly does -- your IMAP client would still need to store a password. -- dwmw2
