[olug] POP3 SSL

Brian Roberson brian at bstc.net
Tue Sep 5 17:56:34 UTC 2000


This intrigued me, so I did it... yes, it is possible ( at least with imap)
I used courier imap server and openssl 

http://www.openssl.org
http://courier.sourceforge.net



Dietz, John D. writes:

> 
> That's not exactly it...I have been told that you can actually use the SSL
> POP3 access in Netscape Mail for example to actually SSL into a POP mail
> server...I was wondering if it is actually worth looking into for setting up
> a secure mail server...
> 
> 
> John Dietz
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> e-mail: dietz_j at penguinpowered.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Roberson [mailto:brian at bstc.net]
> Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 11:49 PM
> To: olug at bstc.net
> Subject: Re: [olug] POP3 SSL
> 
> 
> I just do port forwarding via ssh.
> 
> At 10:41 PM 9/3/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >Has asnyone ever heard of having a POP3 mail server running SSL?  Or IMAP4
> >running SSL?
> >
> >
> >John Dietz
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> >e-mail: dietz_j at penguinpowered.com
> >
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