Tue, 08 Jan 2008

Passwordless alpine with Dovecot

Do you run a server that people SSH into for email?

Do you like to offer them (al)pine?

Do you use the Dovecot IMAP server?

Do you think your users would like to enjoy IMAP benefits from the comfort of alpine without entering their password?

I do! Here's how: Add this to /etc/pine.conf:

rsh-command=/usr/local/bin/alpine-rimapd %s %s %s %s
rsh-path=/bin/sh

And store this in /usr/local/alpine-rimapd:

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap

chmod +x that sucker and you're off to the races!