From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22246 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vladimir Volovich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: pop3 via ssl; imap Date: 03 Apr 1999 03:02:15 +0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <99Apr2.124803est.13843-2@gateway.intersys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160200 27082 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:30:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:30:00 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA05786 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 18:08:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB11825; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:07:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 02 Apr 1999 17:08:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA07319 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:08:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from ns.vsu.ru (root@ns.vsu.ru [62.76.169.12]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA05765 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 18:08:04 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.vsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id DAA18085 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 03:06:49 +0400 Original-Received: (from vvv@localhost) by vvv.vsu.ru (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA25851; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 03:02:15 +0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:51:19 -0500" Original-Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070079 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.79) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22246 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22246 "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. -- If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee. -- Graham Summer