[MlMt] taking an account online remotely?

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Thu Apr 16 23:45:12 EDT 2020


That requires you to enable screen-sharing on the Mac, which
I did not do.

I eventually tried killing and restarting MailMate—for wahtever
reason, that did the trick.

On 16 Apr 2020, at 22:23, David Green wrote:

> Have not tried this but remote control through ssh may be possible 
> since
> you already can get to the machine with ssh.
>
> I found this note about the process:
> https://help.ece.gatech.edu/windows/remote-desk
>
> Dave
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 1:01 PM Steven M. Bellovin 
> <smb at cs.columbia.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> One of my MailMate machines—the one that runs SpamSieve—has a 
>> particular
>> mailbox offline now, as best I can tell. At least, its Inbox does not 
>> show
>> any update in several days, while my laptop has been receiving email 
>> from
>> that source; additionally, spam for that account is not being 
>> filtered. So:
>> is there any way to enable the account remotely? I can ssh to the 
>> machine,
>> kill MailMate, then restart it via 'open -a MailMate'.
>>
>> --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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