Re: [Dovecot] imap over ssh won't work

On Friday 12 January 2007 19:50, Taco Witte wrote:

Hi,

Using version 1.0.rc15 I'm trying to let Evolution connect with IMAP over SSH. When run from the command line, this is what I get:

    ssh host dovecot --exec-mail imap
    * BAD [ALERT] imap binary must not be started from inetd, use
    imap-login instead.

    ssh host MAIL=/root/Maildir/ /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
    * BAD [ALERT] imap binary must not be started from inetd, use
    imap-login instead.

When I run the same commands directly on "host", I do get a PREAUTH prompt (Logged in as root) and when I look around I find exactly the same syntaxis. Does anybody have a clue why it doesn't work?

It's probably because ssh doesn't request allocation of a pseudo-tty when you specify a command to run like that. Use -t to force it.

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