On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:44:43 -0400 chris wrote: > I looked into this a while back. I think I found according to the GMail > support pages, they send over a non standard port using SSL for POP. Why, > I have no idea, but that was what they do.
The standard port for POP3-over-SSL is port 995. That's what GMail is using, so they're not doing anything non-standard wrt ports. I can only guess the reasons that GMail requires POP3-over-SSL and my guess would be that the SSL-encrypted connection prevents password sniffing, to which standard POP3 connections are vulnerable. On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:58:49 -0800 ruekiefer wrote: > So what port DOES Emailer use for POP (incoming) mail? > > Also, I assume this is not something which is easily hacked to change? The standard port for POP3, port 110. This port is hard-coded in Emailer AFAIK. Emailer supports APOP, which encrypts the password sent to the POP server while leaving the rest of the connection in plain text, but few servers support APOP these days as SSL encrypted connections provide superior security. I have successfully used SSL Enabler/SSL Tunnel to connect to a server which required POP-over-SSL. That wasn't GMail, but if you're able to find, run and configure it, I can't see any reason why it wouldn't allow Emailer to work with GMail. See my post to the list "Re: No go on gmail" on Thu, 26 May 2005 05:09:15 -0700 for more information. jwq ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
