I just did this over the weekend for my wife. =)
The hack solution is to use stunnel. On the server side, it listened
to port 995 (SPOP) for SSL connections and forwarded decrypted
connections to the POP server on port 110. On the client side, we
setup our firewall at home so that stunnel listened to port 110 for
cleartext connections and forwarded them to the remote server's port
995 over an SSL connection.
Works nicely. My wife just points her mail reader to our firewall's
port 110 and out comes responses from the remote mail server. ethereal
verified that the transaction wasn't cleartext. =)
-Steve
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 07:09:23PM +0100, Thomas Kuehne wrote:
> Our company just opened a remote location. We would like to give our
> employees in this location access to our pop server in the main
> building. Since both locations have Internet access with a linux router
> on both sides, it can easily be realised. Unfortunately, pop password go
> as plain cleartext over the Internet, which we I want to avoid. One
> solution of course, is to configure the pop server for apop. But this
> causes a lot of extra work. Is there any possibility to establish an
> encrypted channel between two Linux routers, such that the plain
> password could pass through this channel?
>
> Thanks
> -Thomas
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