On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 02:56:18AM +0000, amir wrote:
> How do you plan on using SSL with POP? I know that SSL and IMAP work nicely
>together, but SSL and POP, never heard about that... maybe some SSL proxying
>techniques???
It works exactly the same as SSL and IMAP. You can encapsulate any
TCP connection in an SSL tunnel. This includes IMAP, POP3, telnet, or
even ssh or another SSL session, although the last two are pretty
pointless.
Some servers have built in support for SSL, or you can tack it on
yourself. I use a program called sslwrap in conjuction with
qmail-pop3. I believe another freely available program is called
stunnel(?). When proxying like this typically you restrict
connections to port 110 to localhost, and then sslwrap (or whatever)
proxies between an open port 995 (the port assigned for pop3s) and the
protected port 110.
Brian
