[pmmail-list] Receiving Mail from GMail ?

[John C Humphrey]

Try looking at <http://www.sysadmin.md/how-to-access-gmail-smtppop3-service-with-stunnel.html> also perhaps <http://spampal.sanesecurity.com/manual_eng/servers/stunnel/stunnel.htm> (though it involves a spam filter also).  Essentially you need to set stunnel.conf to listen at an unused port with the "accept=" setting which is what you set PMMail to access and put the gmail severs & ports on the "connect=" line.  So if under [pop3s] you have accept=127.0.0.1:11110 and connect=pop.gmail.com:995 then PMMail pop server is set to 127.0.0.1 port 11110.  Similar for smtp as explained on the web pages.  You do need to start stunnel before fetching or sending mail.  It can also be installed as a service (explained on the spampal site) but as I understand it while stunnel is running it keeps its external ports open which could expose you to some security risk.

John


On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:57:38 -0500 Phil Morgan wrote:
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>I have downloaded and installed the Windows binaries for Stunnel v4.31 
>and OpenSSL v.9.8i.   I'm at a loss about what to put into the stunnel 
>configuration file to make PMMail connect thru SSL to GMail.
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>Anyone with stunnel experience that can help?  I've read the FAQ at 
>Stunnel.org and am lost by the language and lack of a simple 'how-to" 
>description.  I clearly don't know enough about the issues involved to 
>set up this file.
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>  - - Phil
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>On 3/6/2010 5:25 PM, John C Humphrey wrote:
>> The OS/2 version of PMMail is integrated with Stunnel to provide encryption support and that works with GMail.  Perhaps you can try the Stunnel Windows binaries to provide an SSL tunnel to GMail.  I have not tried it myself but it should work.
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>> John
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>> On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:52:46 -0500 Phil Morgan wrote:
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>>> I'm a long time user of PMMail since it was PMMail98.  Is it possible to
>>> configure PMMail2KPro (v.2.20.2717) for Windows to download messages
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>> >from my GMail account?   I've tried all the available Authentication
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>>> settings and none work.
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>>> Is there a way to create an SSL connection to use with PMMail as was
>>> required to access GMail under Thunderbird?
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>>>   - - Phil Morgan, using Windows 7 Pro
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