David R. said:
> What I do here, since I require imaps instead of normal imap, is that I
> firewall out the normal imap port for everybody, but leave imaps open
> for localhost. I believe it should already be default for your firewall
> to leave all loopback ports open, but if it isn't, it shouldn't be hard
> to do. smtp STARTTLS, however, would be a different story. You can't
> just create a stunnel wrapper. Either you can write your own (harder,
> slower), or you could set up an SMTP server on the webserver that's used
>  only for sending mail from SquirrelMail. It should work.

Can you explain why one would want to burn the CPU cycles on running
IMAP*S* firewalled to only be accessible by localhost?

-Peter




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