* encrypted pop/imap?
@ 1999-12-17 9:26 Dan Mills
1999-12-17 11:18 ` Lee Willis
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From: Dan Mills @ 1999-12-17 9:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hello,
I just don't feel good sending my password in clear text over the
network. Is there a way to ecrypt this? At least the authentication
stuff--I don't really care that much about the messages themselves
being sent in clear text.
Perhaps there's a way to tunnel pgnus' connections through ssh? Has
anyone done this?
-Dan
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* Re: encrypted pop/imap?
1999-12-17 9:26 encrypted pop/imap? Dan Mills
@ 1999-12-17 11:18 ` Lee Willis
1999-12-17 11:47 ` Simon Josefsson
1999-12-17 12:36 ` Andi Hechtbauer
2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lee Willis @ 1999-12-17 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
Dan Mills <dm@cs.duke.edu> writes:
> Perhaps there's a way to tunnel pgnus' connections through ssh? Has
> anyone done this?
Nothing to do with Gnus as such, you may want to take a look at
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Secure-POP+SSH.html
which deals with how to use ssh's port forwarding facilities to acheive
what you're looking for.
HTH
Lee
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* Re: encrypted pop/imap?
1999-12-17 9:26 encrypted pop/imap? Dan Mills
1999-12-17 11:18 ` Lee Willis
@ 1999-12-17 11:47 ` Simon Josefsson
1999-12-17 21:13 ` Björn Torkelsson
1999-12-17 12:36 ` Andi Hechtbauer
2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Simon Josefsson @ 1999-12-17 11:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
Dan Mills <dm@cs.duke.edu> writes:
> I just don't feel good sending my password in clear text over the
> network. Is there a way to ecrypt this?
imap.el support CRAM-MD5, kerberos4 (gssapi/kerberos5 should work too,
haven't really gotten around to test it) and SSL, the next release
should support DIGEST-MD5 and STARTTLS too.
Have a look at the documentation for `nnimap-authenticator' and
`nnimap-stream'.
> Perhaps there's a way to tunnel pgnus' connections through ssh?
Sure, set up the ssh port-forward and tell Gnus to connect to
localhost:4711 (or whatever).
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* Re: encrypted pop/imap?
1999-12-17 11:47 ` Simon Josefsson
@ 1999-12-17 21:13 ` Björn Torkelsson
1999-12-18 11:47 ` Simon Josefsson
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Björn Torkelsson @ 1999-12-17 21:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:
> Dan Mills <dm@cs.duke.edu> writes:
>
> > I just don't feel good sending my password in clear text over the
> > network. Is there a way to ecrypt this?
>
> imap.el support CRAM-MD5, kerberos4 (gssapi/kerberos5 should work too,
> haven't really gotten around to test it) and SSL, the next release
> should support DIGEST-MD5 and STARTTLS too.
Somewahet off topic, but...
Which imap servers exists that supports kerberos, preferably heimdal?
/torkel
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* Re: encrypted pop/imap?
1999-12-17 9:26 encrypted pop/imap? Dan Mills
1999-12-17 11:18 ` Lee Willis
1999-12-17 11:47 ` Simon Josefsson
@ 1999-12-17 12:36 ` Andi Hechtbauer
2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andi Hechtbauer @ 1999-12-17 12:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
Dan Mills <dm@cs.duke.edu> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I just don't feel good sending my password in clear text over the
> network. Is there a way to ecrypt this? At least the authentication
> stuff--I don't really care that much about the messages themselves
> being sent in clear text.
>
> Perhaps there's a way to tunnel pgnus' connections through ssh? Has
> anyone done this?
I use
ssh -C \
-L 9143:imap.server.xy:143 \
/usr/X11R6/bin/xbiff -file /path/to/my/procmail_log
before firing up gnus and just tell gnus to connect to
localhost port 9143:
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
(nnimap "hip"
(nnimap-address "127.0.0.1")
(nnimap-server-port 9143)
(nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "mail/*")))
))
As you guessed (or not :-) "procmail_log" is a nnimap group
that gnus fetches, but that's unsubscribed, so xbiff
works.
It's not a very elegant solution, but it works for me.
bye,
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