My experiences with Outlooks and qpopper are unsuccessful. Because I can see some notes in the archives written by those who claim to succeed, I'd like to describe what I did and what I couldn't do and ask for the advice.
My server software is qpopper 4.0.3 running on Solaris (2.6 & 8) with OpenSSL 0.9.6(b) and ANDIrand random package. My client software are: Outlook 2000 and Outlook Express 5 (Polish versions both) and Eudora 5.1. My certificates are self-signed. Eudora 5.1 is the only MUA which works as expected and docummented. Although it didn't want to connect for the first time, it told me about untrusted certificate and started to work when I moved my certificate to trusted ones. Both Outlooks however don't want to run SSL (both in stls and alternate-port modes). They show even different errors, which, according to MS support site, are not related to the circumstances (their advice, for instance: you run SSL. Don't do it anymore :-) or: you have virus shield running at exchange server. stop it immediately :-)). There might be at least two reasons of failure: - untrusted certificate - how to make it trusted under Outlook? I even thought about trial Verisign SSL ID, but I feel it works for Web only (maybe I'm wrong, but how to install it in Outlook - would it respect Internet Explorer certificates?) - other error/misconfiguration - but what exactly, while it runs perfectly with Eudora? All comments are welcome :-) Maciek
