[mew-int 00474] SSH and POP/SMTP

[Marco Lombardi]

Hello everybody,

I need to access a remote mailbox using SSH with POP and SMTP.  I then
changed accordingly the configuration variable `mew-config-alist' and
added something like

("remote"
 ("mail-domain" . "generic.org")
 ("user" . "mlombard")
 ("name" . "Marco Lombardi")
 ("fcc" . nil)
 ("mailbox-type" . 'pop)
 ("pop-user" . "mlombard")
 ("pop-server" . "pophost.generic.org")
 ("pop-ssh-server" . "pophost.generic.org")
 ("smtp-user" . "mlombard")
 ("smtp-server" . "smtphost.generic.org")
 ("smtp-ssh-server" . "smtphost.generic.org"))

Then, when I try to use this configuration case, I see a strange
behavior:

* When sending mails, Mew keep asking for a password, and seems to be
  unable to connect to the server.  In fact eventually it complains
  showing this error message

  1.wrk has been queued to +queue/1 (Can't connect to smtphost.generic.org)

  Checking the open processes with "ps", I actually see that Mew is
  using this command line

  ssh -x -v -o NumberOfPasswordPrompts=3 -L10289:smtphost.generic.org:25 smtphost.generic.org

  I would expect also something like "-l mlombard" in order to set the
  remote user name.  In other words, I suspect that Mew is trying to
  use "lombardi" (my local user name) instead of "mlombard" (my remote
  user name) to access smtphost.generic.org.  Did I forget to set
  something?


* When reading mails with `i', Mew just do nothing.  Again, did I
  forget something?


Many thanks in advance for the help!


Marco Lombardi