[lug] ssl mutt & pop

[Joseph P. Crotty]

Dave,

You could try Qpopper a freely available POP3 server.

http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/

Out of the box it doesn't come SSL enabled, but does support TSL/SSL visa vie OpenSSL and some compile configurations.

The only other option that comes to mind is Fetchmail.

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/

SSL POP3 is pretty easy to enable with fetchmail.

Joe Crotty

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of David Owen Kritzberg
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 2:32 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] ssl mutt & pop
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have email at CU, and take my mail from CU's servers with POP onto
> my linux box using sendmail.  Then I read mail with mutt.  This may
> not be a very good way to arrange things, but it has been working fine
> for me.  I would like to keep using mutt and keep CU as my mail
> server, and I think I would like to continue using a POP connection.
> 
> CU wants all connections to be ssl-enabled by January 2.  I believe it
> is possible to use ssl through a pop connection, but I'm pretty
> unsophisticated with mail and I haven't found any examples on the
> internet.
> 
> Most ssl-enabled email connections seem to rely on IMAP and the
> maildir format, neither of which interest me.  I have been looking
> around for examples using fetchmail and procmail.  I wonder if anyone
> on this list has resolved a situation similar to mine?  Thanks for any
> advice.
> 
> Dave
> 
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