[MlMt] taking an account online remotely?

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Fri Apr 17 01:55:30 EDT 2020


Thanks!

On 17 Apr 2020, at 1:04, David Green wrote:

> Sounds like you fixed it but I think you can start the service from 
> command
> line if you need to.
>
> https://frightanic.com/apple-mac/enable-os-x-screen-sharing-command-line/
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:45 PM Steven M. Bellovin 
> <smb at cs.columbia.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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