>>>>> "Shawn" == Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com> writes: Shawn> They can all do that, Gnus is just nice enough to already have Shawn> done some of the work for you setting it up. I do IMAP over ssh Shawn> all the time, and news via an ssh socks4 proxy. Hmm. I'm not talking about normal ssh port forwarding. I'm talking about ssh-ing into the server, cat-ing the mail spool there, and feeding it to gnus. For news, it ssh-es into one of the University's servers, and telnets to the nntp server from there. (I could probably use standard ssh port forwarding for that, but I could never get my head wrapped around ssh port forwarding.) gnus also lets me send mail through an ssh connection (i.e. it ssh-es into a server, and uses the local mail program there), so that I don't have to worry about "what mail server am I authorized to connect to from where I am right now?" or dealing with those icky POP-before-send servers. Shawn> Gnus also has the dubious distinction of being the only Shawn> non-Microsoft MUA whose headers I see in enough spam to remember Shawn> it. :-) Strange. I didn't know spammers were so sophisticated. Even if those headers are being faked, I wonder why they would have chosen gnus. -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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