On 15/11/05, Derek Broughton <auspex(_at_)pointerstop(_dot_)ca> wrote:
Due to "issues" with the $%^*!(_at_)# firewall at my client's site, I can't
get
out to my mailbox, directly. So, I'm trying to use fetchmail via ssh in
two hops. This works from home:
poll pointerstop.ca with proto imap
plugin "ssh pointers(_at_)%h /usr/sbin/imapd" auth ssh
user "pointers"
and this works (as user fetchmail) from the client's site:
ssh derek(_at_)io(_dot_)acad(_dot_)athabascau(_dot_)ca \
'ssh pointers(_at_)pointerstop(_dot_)ca /usr/sbin/imapd'
and seems to meet the criteria for a plugin: I can give it imap commands on
stdin and get results on stdout. The ssh keys are configured correctly so
that no passwords are requested.
But this doesn't:
poll pointerstop.ca with proto imap
plugin "ssh derek(_at_)io(_dot_)acad(_dot_)athabascau(_dot_)ca \
'ssh pointers(_at_)pointerstop(_dot_)ca /usr/sbin/imapd'"
auth ssh
user "pointers"
Syslog shows:
socket error while fetching from pointerstop.ca
What am I doing wrong? Is there some really good reason why I can't do it?
I think you're doing something nobody else has tried :-)
You may need to write a script as the plugin, maybe calling a script
on the intermediate host. It could be that the nesting is the
problem.
--
Please keep list traffic on the list.
Rob MacGregor
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
doesn't become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche
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