Chris Hilts said:
If you want password security as well as encryption, download Putty and create an SSH tunnel for your Squirrelmail session. http://www.vbmysql.com/articles/sshtunnel.html is an article on how to do it with mySQL but the technique applies to any application, including SM.
Or you could do what the rest of the world does, and have your web clients connect using HTTPS rather than HTTP. Combine that with the secure_login plugin, and you've got a much easier solution to implement, plus it's uniform across all browsers.. Not just for the users who bother to set up the tunnel.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but here's how I did it:
I think you are missing something... The objective.
I created a sub-domain that users enter in their browser to access SM. On the server I created a Redirect to redirect that URL to an https address. Thus all users get an SSL connection, all the time, but none of them needs to type "https" to get it.
The OP was not asking how to make it easier for his users by not having to enter https://. In fact, he doesn't mention https at all.
It seems much simpler than some of the solutions I've seen proposed here, but perhaps I'm missing some potential added benefit.
There are only 2 other solutions proposed in this thread, and one of them is using HTTPS. Isn't that what you are proposing?
By the way, HOW did you do that cool redirect thing. Telling us that your solution is much simpler is great, but a little bit more detail would be nice.
Remember that not everyone is on a hosted server with pre-configured IMAP, SMTP, and HTTP servers. Some of them have to configure those themselves.
-- Matt
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