>I am appalled that I might have to bust out some low-level trace debugger 
>to find out if I can run freakin secure POP3 connections!

I am appalled that you would consider _not_ doing it.

The whole point of open-source software is _not_ so you can get software
for free; it's so when problems arise, you have the ability to debug them
yourself (and, of course, add new features to the software, but that's
a seperate issue).

Unfortunately, you've run into the down side of open-source software;
support and Q&A is one of those things that cost money, so that's where
open-source software isn't so good.  There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free
Lunch, and sometimes open-source stuff doesn't always play together.  The
solution is generally one of the following.

- Return the software for a full refund.
- Fix it yourself.
- Wait for someone else to do it.

If you don't have the ability or time to fix/debug it yourself, then I
would advise purchasing a commercial POP server; they have (hopefully)
used their resources to perform proper testing.  If you can't afford
commercial software ... well, I guess you're outta luck, then.  I mean,
I don't think anyone HERE is under any obligation to make sure qpopper
works for you.

>Being nice got me ignored.

Now _THIS_ really pisses me off.

What do you think, we're all sitting around, saying, "ha ha, look at
that fool, we really know what his problem is, but we're going to
ignore him just out of spite?".  The reality is many of us are busy,
and if this answer isn't obvious to us, we generally don't reply.  _I_
didn't reply because I don't use SSL, so it's not relevant to me.  If
the answer is, "Well, I just compiled it out of the box, and it worked
fine for me", how is that going to help you?  You could determine
whether or not people were having similar problems by checking the
mailing list archives.  I'm not saying that people that have problems
shouldn't post here, _but_ if someone is asking _me_ for help
(especially help I'm providing them FOR FREE), I'm going to expect them
to ask nicely.

I personally don't ask a question to a public list until I've spent a
few hours debugging the problem, and when I mean debugging, I mean
tracing the source code, turning on debugging, and possibly breaking
out the debugger and stepping through the program to figure out what is
going on.  I don't expect EVERYONE to have done that, but as much debugging
as you can is reasonable, and I've never seen a bug report that included
too much information.

--Ken

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