>That said, using SSL to tunnel to the POP or IMAP server can also work.
>The SPOP port is 995.
>The SIMAP port is 993.
>
>There is this little ssl program "edsll" that listens on an "SSL-port" and
>forwards to the normal port. We have not put this in production, but have
>been fiddeing with it in house.
Okay, so let me get this straight -- you run a ssl proxy on your local
machine and tell your client to connect to a "fake" POP/IMAP server
on your local box, which proxies the connection to the real SPOP/SIMAP
server, and you authenticate using plaintext passwords over the
encrypted channel? Interesting. Do you have edsll ported to Windows
or the Mac?
>This way we can open our news server to users outside our domain as long as
>they can authenticate (encrypted) to our servers. Since SSL is being
>implemented in many clients now, we should not have to be too worried about
>what software the users ISP's have. And since netscape is free....
I'm curious ... do a lot of mail clients (POP or IMAP) currently support
SSL? I wasn't aware that any did, but I haven't really been following
it lately.
--Ken
