Re: configuring fetchmail, exim and mutt for remote access

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:01:43PM -0800, Easthope wrote:
Roberto Sanchez & others,

At Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:45:38 -050, Roberto Sanchez said,
"Setup mutt on the machine and ssh in when
you are travelling."

It works as you outline.
POP3 server, is on machine P.
fetchmail, exim, mutt and ssh are on home machine, H.
ssh is on mobile machine M.

You can setup mutt on machine M and have it just pull messages directly
from machine P via POP. If you always want most of your messages
waiting there for you, then you can use fetchmail. I think that exim is
not necessary for your needs.

Also, thanks for explaining why the MAC
address can not not identify H to the world.

I wonder about streamlining even further.
Ie., run exim and mutt, or other MUA, on M
with M-exim communicating with H-exim by SMTP
tunnelled in TLS. A message would travel
thusly.

SMTP
POP3 in TLS
P =====> H ======> M-exim ===> M-MUA

Any chance of this working? Any tips on
configuring it before I waste too many
hours ... or days?

As I said, exim is probably overkill. You can do what you want with
mutt+fetchmail.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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