Hi Aldo - Thursday, December 26, 2002, 4:47:42 AM, Aldo wrote:
APSA> I dont know how many hours I have lost in this matter. There is APSA> no way I can connect. I have tested all of the alternatives but APSA> it wont go. I've been through this, and I feel your pain. I spent *days* trying to get the connection to work. It turns out that The Bat doesn't currently support secure IMAP connections, and even the POP3 secure connection didn't work with my mail server. APSA> Could you advice, please, on what I should do ? What I ended up doing (on the suggestion of a helpful member of this list, who's name I don't recall) was to use stunnel (www.stunnel.org). Stunnel is a free program that basically takes local connections and passes them securely to the mail server. It looks a bit intimidating at first, but it isn't as difficult to configure as it seems, and works flawlessly once you've got it set up. I ended up configuring it to use POP3 rather than IMAP, but I'm sure you could get it to work with IMAP as well. To set up stunnel to use a secure POP connection, put the following lines in your stunnel.conf file after you've installed stunnel: [sllpop3] accept = 127.0.0.1:110 connect = aguayro.ulpgc.es:995 Then run stunnel.exe (I have it start automatically with Windows), and tell The Bat to receive mail from 127.0.0.1 on port 110. That's it! APSA> To me, it is amazing how this can be done automatically on lousy APSA> email programs and it is -->> so << -- difficult to do with TheBat. Agreed. This problem needs to be addressed by the developers, especially since so many mail servers are starting to require secure connections. -- Sean Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A PGP key: send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
