Re: pop3 via ssl; imap

[Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru>]

"Rat" == Stainless Steel Rat writes:

 Rat> Couldn't you just put an "&" at the end of the command?
 Rat> I tried that.  It did not work.

i've found that it is very easy to use (pop3|imap|anything) via ssl
provided that you have:

* an application which could work with (pop3|imap|anything), but is
  not "ssl-aware"

* SSLeay or openssl installed (namely, s_client)

* you are working on a unix box

then, all you need is:

* add a "fake" service name to /etc/services (for some unused port),

* add a record to /etc/inetd.conf for this service, which calls
  s_client which connects via ssl to the remote server

* tell your (pop3|imap|anything) non-ssl-aware application to connect
  to localhost (without ssl) instead of the remote server! :-)

so, the external channel will be ssl-encrypted, and the application
need not be ssl-aware at all (however, with ssl.el, nnimap works fine;
i did not find (i haven't really investigate this) a standard way to
tell pop3.el to use ssl.el's open-ssl-stream).

	Best regards, -- Vladimir.
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