SUMMARY: IMAP + SSL

[Anthony Howe <achowe@snert.com>]

Thank you to all who wrote which has helped me implemented successfully
a solution.

1. DKIMAP4 is a solution, but its written in C++ and I don't do C++.

        http://www.dbox.handshake.de/ 

2. Cyrus IMAPD uses a different mail database structure, instead of the
traditional Unix mailbox file, which I didn't want to switch to.  I like
being able to use mailx and/or edit a mailbox in Vi.

        http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus

3. Some suggested using SSLWrap, but for some reason I discarded this
solution.

        http://www.rickk.com/sslwrap

4. I found there was a new version of UW IMAP, version 2000b which is
supposed to support SSL using OpenSSL. Going this route proved
unsuccessful. The documentation was incomplete or vague as to howto
setup the SSL certificates nor was the OpenSSL documentation specific
enough to help here.
        
        http://www.washington.edu/imap/
        http://www.openssl.org/

5. In the end I went with using stunnel, as suggested. It was by far the
simplest and clearest solution that worked. stunnel's web site
documentation was, while not 100% clear, was far better than the others.
I now have Netscape working with a self-signed certificate talking IMAP
over SSL.

        http://www.stunnel.org/

Thank you for all your help.


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