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Re: stunnel and tcp-wrappers/spop3 and simap4

Subject: Re: stunnel and tcp-wrappers/spop3 and simap4
From: Anders Nordby (andersfix.no)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2000 - 07:10:00 CST

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 08:53:23AM +0100, tim wrote:
> I hope that this isn't too much off topic ... but I've installed stunnel
> and the tcp_wrappers. What I would like to have is that when one gets
> his mail, through pop3 or through imap, that the connection is encypted.
>
> With stunnel installed, you have spop3 and simap4 ... however, I need to
> learn more about this. Does anyone know of a good site for this info?

The stunnel and openssl man pages + README's should be sufficient. You'll
use openssl for certificate generation.

> What does one need on the client side?

Mail programs supporting SSL. Netscape Mail and Outlook Express supports
this (Netscape only supports SIMAP though, not SPOP3). You're likely to
find the option of using SSL hidden under some obscure 'secure passwords
authentication' term or something like that.

Cheers. 

-- 
Anders Nordby ^ andersfix.no ^ http://anders.fix.no/

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