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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!


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Thanks.  Works like a champ!

One minor error in your write up. You say:

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

Should be

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

Posted by weave at Sat Oct 24 19:31:18 2009

I get:

Usage: dovecot [-F] [-c <config file>] [-p] [-n] [-a] [--help] [--version]
  [--build-options] [reload] [stop]
Fatal: Unknown argument: --exec-mail

Has something changed?

Pls pls pls pls can someone point me to idiot-proof instructions for how to set up alpine, dovecot to work on a maildir created by offlineimap (from gmail).

Posted by Chris Barrington-Leigh at Tue Nov 15 12:07:29 2011

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