Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 14:43:00 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-freebsd@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ssh from FreeBSD laptop to view mail Message-ID: <20000708144300.D183@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <m2r994l5em.fsf@reader.ptw.com>; from reader@newsguy.com on Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 01:43:13PM -0700 References: <m2r994l5em.fsf@reader.ptw.com>
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[This is not really a -mobile question. Redirecting to -questions.] On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 01:43:13PM -0700, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running a Toshiba 4005CDS with FreeBSD 4.0 snap 06/24 > > I have ssh-1.2.27 installed and use it extensively. In fact I've set > my machines (personal at home machines) to only allow connections via > ssh. OpenSSH is part of the base system of FreeBSD 4.0. No need to install the ssh-1.2.27 port. > Now I want to have a laptop running FreeBSD 4.0 networked to desktop > running Redhat linux, be able to view/manipulate mail on the parent machine > but don't want to setup pop, imap or special sendmail stuff. [snip] > What would be nice is to just say `mutt' and a ssh connection is > started and mail in PARENT:/var/spool/mail/$NAME is viewed, deleted > saved etc. > > I have ssh-agent setup and do understand how to avoid password > problems during connections. Why don't you just connect to the other machine and run mutt? % ssh redhat Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Hedwig) Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an i586 % mutt Or do that in one step, % ssh redhat mutt -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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