GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 210460
exec cmd prior to pop3
Last modified: 2013-07-24 14:39:49 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Wishlist Version: 0.13 Synopsis: exec cmd prior to pop3 Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Mailer Description: feature request -- please add a field for a command to execute prior to each pop3 session, similar to fetchmail. just as with fetchmail I'd like to be able to setup a pop3 over ssh tunnel for a few seconds immediately prior to starting the pop3 session to localhost. In addition we would need to specify an alternate port as non-root users can't redirect privileged ports. For instance I'd want to forward the remote port 110 to port 1110 on localhost for 10 seconds by running ssh -L 1110:localhost:110 <remotehost> sleep 10 & and then starting the pop3 session with localhost without waiting for the above command to exit. None of the places I have shell accounts support SSL-POP3 so this is my only option. Thanks! Unknown reporter: steve@slac.com, changed to bugbuddy-import@ximian.com.
Mentioned in https://launchpad.net/products/evolution/+bug/54995 as well.
No plans to support this. People should use an MTA for this (sendmail etc), not an end-user MUA like Evolution.