Hi all, I'm encountering an SSL error when I try to check my secure IMAP/POP3 mailboxes using Mutt 1.5.5 under MS-DOS. Yes, that's right, not in a DOS window under Windows or in DOSBox but under 100% MS-DOS. After a very long search, I managed to find a port at http://www.caddit.net/engineering/programming/ that uses DJGPP and Wattcp-32 for network functionality. I've been looking forever for a way to check my SSL-authenticated remote mailboxes under DOS and this port appeared to be my last hope short of compiling my own client, but now Mutt tells me that "SSL [is] disabled due to the lack of entropy". I sort of followed the workaround provided here (http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/README.SSL) by creating my own randfile that consists of a bunch of random letters and numbers that I typed out, but when I try set the appropriate environment variables and try to use it, Mutt complains about file permissions. Of course, there are no file permissions, since I'm using DOS, but according to the instructions above my randfile's permissions need to be set to 600.
I'd appreciate any help that you could give on this subject or if you could suggest a completely different alternative to Mutt altogether. Other than finding an SSL-capable mail client for DOS, I've also considered using an SSH tunnel (or is it an SSL tunnel? I mean "stunnel"), but so far I haven't been able to find one that will run on it. Thanks, Ersin -- ========= Ersin Y. Akinci -- http://www.ersinakinci.com
