From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnus, thunderbird and imap Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:47:53 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87zkrsl93s.fsf@news.individual.de> <4D1A2E1E.2050602@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293661306 5159 80.91.229.12 (29 Dec 2010 22:21:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:21:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 29 23:21:42 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PY4Oq-0000hg-TF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:21:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49744 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PY4Oq-00044a-6j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:21:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46275 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PXuVl-00057W-S4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:48:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PXuVk-0002N5-8h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:48:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rainey.bang.priv.no ([212.110.185.190]:40533) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PXuVk-0002Mc-4Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:48:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4D1A2E1E.2050602@mousecar.com> (ken's message of "Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:36:14 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 62.113.137.5 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: too long (recipient list exceeded maximum allowed size of 8 bytes) X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: sb@dod.no X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:14:11 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on rainey.bang.priv.no) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:18:54 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77958 Archived-At: >>>>> ken : >> You are aware you dont have to open your local dovecot server to >> anyone aren't you? > You speak as if it's nothing more than a matter of wishing. If I'm on > the road and the server is at home, then to get my mail I have to > connect to the server over the internet. Or if I run the server on my > laptop, still, it must be connected to the internet. Either way, this > means that the server must be connected to the internet. This means > it's exposed. Again, in this scenario just a password is not > sufficient security. I believe at least gnus can run the dovecot executable in a subprocess and talk IMAP over pipes. So in that case there needs to be no daemon listening to ports, and there needs to be no authentication (dovecot is a process running with the user's privileges, accessing Maildir folders under the user's home directory). Not sure how well that approach will work with other IMAP clients on the same computer, though. Caveat: I don't use a local dovecot and offlineimap. I use Gnus with nnimap+agent