retitle 504530 Documentation issue: tunnel affects IMAP and SMTP; suggest account-hook thanks
Turns out that tunnel intentionally affects all connection types, including IMAP and SMTP. Brendan Cully explained to me how the account-hook mechanism allows setting things like tunnel on a per-connection basis, which worked perfectly (thanks Brendan!). I'd suggest adding a note about this to the documentation for "tunnel" in the muttrc manpage: """ Mutt uses the tunnel for all connections it makes, including SMTP, IMAP, and POP3. If you want to use a different tunnel for different connections, use account-hook to set or unset tunnel for each connection. """ A "for example" couldn't hurt. Feel free to use something like the configuration I ended up with: account-hook . 'unset tunnel' account-hook ^imaps://u...@server/ 'set tunnel="ssh -q server dovecot --exec-mail imap"' - Josh Triplett -- Package-specific info: Mutt 1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Copyright (C) 1996-2008 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: Linux 2.6.27-1-amd64 (x86_64) ncurses: ncurses 5.7.20081220 (compiled with 5.6) libidn: 1.10 (compiled with 1.9) hcache backend: GDBM version 1.8.3. 10/15/2002 (built Aug 27 2008 08:41:43) Compile options: -DOMAIN +DEBUG -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK +USE_POP +USE_IMAP +USE_SMTP +USE_GSS -USE_SSL_OPENSSL +USE_SSL_GNUTLS +USE_SASL +HAVE_GETADDRINFO +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME -CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +COMPRESSED +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +USE_HCACHE -ISPELL SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="/var/mail" PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/etc" EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" MIXMASTER="mixmaster" To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-...@mutt.org>. To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/. patch-1.5.13.cd.ifdef.2 patch-1.5.13.cd.purge_message.3.4 patch-1.5.13.nt+ab.xtitles.4 patch-1.5.4.vk.pgp_verbose_mime patch-1.5.6.dw.maildir-mtime.1 patch-1.5.8.hr.sensible_browser_position.3 -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mutt depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.41.3-1 common error description library ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-4 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libgnutls26 2.4.2-4 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libidn11 1.10-3 GNU libidn library, implementation ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081220-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsasl2-2 2.1.22.dfsg1-23 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra Versions of packages mutt recommends: pn exim4 | mail-transport-agent <none> (no description available) ii locales 2.7-18 GNU C Library: National Language ( ii mime-support 3.44-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap Versions of packages mutt suggests: ii aspell 0.60.6-1 GNU Aspell spell-checker ii ca-certificates 20080809 Common CA certificates ii gnupg 1.4.9-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep pn mixmaster <none> (no description available) ii openssl 0.9.8g-14 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a pn urlview <none> (no description available) Versions of packages mutt is related to: ii mutt 1.5.18-4 text-based mailreader supporting M pn mutt-dbg <none> (no description available) pn mutt-patched <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
