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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:
> 
> > * does gnus support getting mail from pop3 server via ssl?
> 
> You mean setting up an ssh tunnel, and then getting pop mail via the
> tunnel?  Yes, you can do that with the :prescript stuff.

No, I believe he means using the pop3 + ssl port # and doing a real SSL
handshake before anything pop related.  You could do this with the 'ssl.el' 
package from Emacs/W3 pretty easily - pop3.el could just use
open-ssl-stream if a flag was set.

ssl.el requires SSLeay though.

-Bill P.