Re: IMAP + SSL

[Theo Van Dinter <felicity@kluge.net>]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:40:24PM -0500, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> I haven't done this myself, but I'm told that to do this, mostly people use a
> generic IMAP server with stunnel to handle the SSL part.  I've heard it works
> very well.

I got bored over the weekend and played with this for a bit.  stunnel works
very nicely with both the UW POP/IMAP servers as well as Qpopper.  I have
been able to do SSL IMAP (what I was really interested in) from both Outlook
Express and Netscape's Mail client.

The biggest problem is getting other clients to understand a certificate
that is signed by a "non-major" CA (I created a self-signed certificate),
but that is usually easy to fix.

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