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Bug 210460 - exec cmd prior to pop3
exec cmd prior to pop3
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[pop]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-09-20 01:50 UTC by Steve Jackson
Modified: 2013-07-24 14:39 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Steve Jackson 2001-09-20 02:09:48 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.

Comment 1 Daniel Holbach 2006-08-03 09:41:48 UTC
Mentioned in https://launchpad.net/products/evolution/+bug/54995 as well.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2010-08-10 11:14:20 UTC
No plans to support this. People should use an MTA for this (sendmail etc), not an end-user MUA like Evolution.