[Dovecot] [OT] Apple Mail.app access to localhost imap when no network

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 24-11-2004 11:19, Johannes Berg wrote:

> Evolution allows me to configure a so-called "IMAP command" that is called
> instead of making a connection to localhost:143 and provides an already
> authenticated IMAP connection on stdin/out. I've been using a small script
> that exports a few environment variables and then exec's
> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap to do exactly this -- no network involved and the
> best thing is that I don't even need to enter a password for local access.

Hmm - what environment variables is that? Could you maybe provide the
script?

I want to connect directly to dovecot from offlineimap through an SSH
tunnel (to avoid storing passwords in cleartext on my laptop), but have
failed so far.


 - Jonas

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