[mew-int 00475] Re: SSH and POP/SMTP

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

From: Marco Lombardi <lombardi at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 00474] SSH and POP/SMTP

> Hello everybody,

Hello,

>  ("mailbox-type" . 'pop)

This should be ("mailbox-type" . pop) since it is already quoted.

>   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?

To specify a user of SSH level, do like this:

 ("pop-ssh-server" . "mlombard at example.com")

"pop-user" is a user of POP level. Please don't confuse.

--Kazu