Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:05:00 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> Subject: Re: Ssh from FreeBSD laptop to view mail Message-ID: <20000709130459.A394@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <m2d7kokxiz.fsf@reader.ptw.com>; from reader@newsguy.com on Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 04:33:24PM -0700 References: <m2r994l5em.fsf@reader.ptw.com> <20000708144300.D183@dialin-client.earthlink.net> <m2d7kokxiz.fsf@reader.ptw.com>
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On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 04:33:24PM -0700, Harry Putnam wrote:
> "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> writes:
>
> > [This is not really a -mobile question. Redirecting to -questions.]
>
> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here. I haven't read a charter
> for this group, but was under the impression that questions concerning
> mobil machines running FreeBSD were fair game here.
They are, but your question was about syncing a file between two
systems which is a topic not specific to mobile machines. I thought
you might get a better answer from the broader audience in -questions.
> > OpenSSH is part of the base system of FreeBSD 4.0. No need to install
> > the ssh-1.2.27 port.
>
> Already installed and fully running.. I'm familiar with it from past
> practice ... why go to something I'm not familiar with?
It's added complexity to the system. The ssh-1.2.x versions have known
bugs and restrictive licensing. It does not support SSH protocol 2.
> > > 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/$NAME is viewed, deleted
> > > saved etc.
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > Why don't you just connect to the other machine and run mutt?
>
> Unless I'm really missing the boat here, any manipulations done with
> mutt in that way would be executed on that machine. If I saved a
> file it would be saved to the wrong machine. If I deleted mail it
> would be missing from the parent not the laptop. If I split the mail
> in a different way, etc etc.
>
> You snipped the part that explained why, or at least inferred it.
In the part I left above, you say that you want the mail on the parent
to be viewed, deleted, saved, etc. That's what I understood.
> >> Then both machines will have full access to the mail without scewing
> >> up the others spool.
>
> What I'm after here is to manipulate the incoming mail spool in anyway
> I want without changing the parent machines own spool. The results of
> any actions taken to be executed on the laptop.
That did not come across to me in the first mail. So a wrapper script,
#!/bin/sh
REMOTE=${0:-defaulthost}
scp $REMOTE:/var/spool/mail/$USER Mail/inbox
mutt -f Mail/inbox
Would do the trick?
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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