Re: [Mailsync-list] Using mailsync with ssh

[Chris G. <ch...@ar...>]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:29:40PM +0100, tp...@so... wrote:
> Zitat von Chris Green <ch...@ar...>:
> 
> > Having looked into this I have come to the following conclusion.
> >
> > Mailsync only works 'with ssh' to a remote IMAP server, I'm pretty
> > sure it can't access an ordinary mbox (or other) hierarchy on a remote
> > machine by using ssh.
> >
> > I *think* the example in the examples documentation is just that,
> > accessing a remote mh mailbox system which happens to have an IMAP
> > server using the mh hierarchy.
> >
> > If anyone can point me to some documentation and/or help suggesting
> > otherwise then I'd be very pleased to know about it.
> 
> What about accessing the remote files through shfs or fuse?
> 
> * mount the remount machine through shfs or fuse
> * access it like it were local
> 
> It's probably going to be a bandwidth killer though, so it might not be
> practicable...
> 
> See http://shfs.sf.net

Thanks, that's certainly a possibility, I'd looked for utilities like
this before but not found them.

-- 
Chris Green (ch...@ar...)

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