[pmmail-list] SSL tunneling for POP mail

Nicholas Saxon pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:31:40 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:55:23 +0200, xavier caballe wrote:

>
>Since I'm a little bit concerned about the security of my own mail -I
>travel quite a lot and usually I have to access my mail from the 
customer
>network, so I don't like to send my password on cleartext. So, I'm
>planning to install a dedicated POP server and I'd like to wrap my POP
>traffic using SSL (with stunnel, http://www.stunnel.org/).
>
>I'm affraid that PMMail does not support this... does it?

Thanks for the link! It's a simple and effective idea, indeed.
As you could conclude from the information available on the site,
stunnel can provide the client side support as well. So, PMMail
doesn't have to support SSL to benefit from using stunnel,
thouhg it could.


>
>Xavi
>---
>Foghorns blowing in the night, salt sea in the morning breeze,
>driving cars all allong the coastline... This must be what paradise is 
like
>

Nick

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