RMAIL and SSL?

RMAIL and SSL?

[Stephen H. Westin]

For the last 15 years or so, I've used RMAIL to read mail on a variety
of machines: Symbolics, Sun, SGI, HP, Mac, Windows. Now our systems
staff says they want to eliminate all cleartext passwords going over
our network, so they will soon require all POP/IMAP connections to go
through SSL.

So is there a way to use RMAIL/POP through SSL? Is code available?
Will I be forced to switch to GNUS or VM? If so, which will be the
least disruptive migration? I would like to keep using POP3 for the
moment if I can, as I'm using POPFile as a spam filter.

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-Stephen H. Westin
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Re: RMAIL and SSL?

[Andrew Koenig]

> So is there a way to use RMAIL/POP through SSL? Is code available?

I have not tried this personally, but I suspect that Stunnel might be able
to help.
See www.stunnel.org for details.

Re: RMAIL and SSL?

[Kai Grossjohann]

westin*nospam@graphics.cornell.edu (Stephen H. Westin) writes:

> So is there a way to use RMAIL/POP through SSL? Is code available?
> Will I be forced to switch to GNUS or VM? If so, which will be the
> least disruptive migration? I would like to keep using POP3 for the
> moment if I can, as I'm using POPFile as a spam filter.

I think you could just fetch your mail with fetchmail.  I think that
program speaks APOP and SSL.  You can tell fetchmail to put the mail
in a file, and then RMAIL to get it from there.

If you use another email program, then I'm sure that VM is closer to
RMAIL than Gnus.

Kai