Re: [leaf-user] Re: using IMAP, SSH, stunnel, and SSL
On Monday 20 May 2002 04:52 pm, you wrote: ssh -L 110:host2:110 -L 143:host2:143 user@host2 (I am trying to use IMAP only - but it's hard) Maybe I am just dense but I am wondering why you don't just use SSL/TLS to connect to your IMAP service. I believe this is a documented feature of an IMAP server and an IMAP client should just be able to use it. I use this with courier-imap and it has worked fine for more than a year. No need for stunnel (which is fine by the way) or any ssh forwarding, just plain old port 993. This was my goal, and I finally seem to have succeeded. Initial reason I didn't do it is that I don't know SSL, but I do know SSH (mostly). Also, it isn't guaranteed that an IMAP client (of which there are not a lot) will be able to do SSL. I don't think Mutt can, for example - but I know KMail does. With the right docs, I seem to have been able to set up TSL (or is it SSL?) on my IMAP server and put it to use. ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
Re: [leaf-user] Re: using IMAP, SSH, stunnel, and SSL
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 20:11, David Douthitt wrote: On Monday 20 May 2002 04:52 pm, you wrote: ssh -L 110:host2:110 -L 143:host2:143 user@host2 (I am trying to use IMAP only - but it's hard) Maybe I am just dense but I am wondering why you don't just use SSL/TLS to connect to your IMAP service. I believe this is a documented feature of an IMAP server and an IMAP client should just be able to use it. I use this with courier-imap and it has worked fine for more than a year. No need for stunnel (which is fine by the way) or any ssh forwarding, just plain old port 993. This was my goal, and I finally seem to have succeeded. Initial reason I didn't do it is that I don't know SSL, but I do know SSH (mostly). Also, it isn't guaranteed that an IMAP client (of which there are not a lot) will be able to do SSL. I don't think Mutt can, for example - but I know KMail does. Mutt does SSL/TLS very well: http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/ Stephen ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
