Thanks bill, I guess we all learn something new everyday (grin). I knew icarus supported ssh, but didn't know it supported imap. Greg On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:05:48PM -0700, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote: > Hi, Gregg, > > Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Yesterday was rebuild > the server date. If you do: "telnet icarus.cc.uic.edu 143", you'll see > the response from the IMAP server. I no nothing about your university, > but I no that edu institutions are adopting the IMAP protocol a bit > faster than the public ISPs. So I did a telnet to confirm it and > reported. Oh, cool! I see that it also supports ssh. You can most > likely use it to encrypt your fetchmail sessions. Try adding this line to > your .fetchmailrc > plugin "ssh %h /usr/sbin/imapd" auth ssh; > > This assumes that the imapd executable is in the usual place on the > server. You'll be prompted for the password, just like in an ssh session. > To automate the process, you can generate a public and private key pair and > put the public key on the server. > > > > > HTH. > Bill > > On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Gregory Nowak > wrote: > > > Uhmm, how can you tell that icarus supports IMAP? > > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
