Re: stunnel for SSL still needs authentication

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRWolf@att.net> writes:

>> Smtpmail.el in Emacs support both SASL and STARTTLS.  SSL on a
>> different port would not be difficult to support, but I will not work
>> on that since it isn't the right thing.
>
> It's the right thing for me!!!

I hear you.

I still won't do the work though. :-) Of course, I'd encourage anyone
else to do it, and might even help answering questions or committing
the patch to CVS.

> My ISP (att.net) requires it. If I come in through the internet
> (instead of their modem pool -- e.g. from a wireless cafe), I've got
> to follow these rules:
>
>     http://www.wurd.com/eng/setup/index.htm#Accessing

I'm unable to access the mail server from here (no DNS entry), so I
cannot check if it supports SASL or STARTTLS too, but they really
should support that.  They could support SMTP over TLS too, for legacy
clients.

I'll repeat the suggestion to use SSH port forwarding that someone
suggested; it is simple and reliable.  You can even get it to work
from behind a HTTP tunnel if you ever need to.  Of course, this assume
you have a Internet connected machine you can SSH to, and a SMTP
server accessible from it.

Good luck.