#5 SSL Support

[Ken Gordon]

My IMAP server requires SSL to connect. Is it possible for
IMAPAssassin to implement (or is it already implemented
and not obvious) SSL connections?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I got this working with a bit of hacking about. Here are
some notes:

1) In IMAPAssassin you'll need to set up your own socket:

use IO::Socket::SSL;
$client = new IO::Socket::SSL($your_ssl_host_here);
where $your_ssl_host_here is in the form "host.name.com:993"
or whatever port your SSL IMAP host is listening on.

2) Don't send the Server arg to the new method for IMAPClient.
In fact, I ended up doing my own auth so I use no flags
at all:
It should still be possible to send the user name and
password
here and then do $IMAP->login, but my server didn't like
that.

my $IMAP = Mail::IMAPClient->new();

3) The FAQ indicates that you *should* be able to associate the
socket directly like this

$IMAP->Socket( $client ); // Did not work for me
$IMAP->Connected(1); // Did not work for me

but in my experience that did not work. What did work was
adding
a method called use_socket() to Mail/IMAPClient.pm (in
the lib dir)
and calling it like this:

// In IMAPAssassin:
$IMAP->use_socket($client);

// In IMAPClient.pm
sub use_socket {
my $self = shift;
my ($sock) = @_;

$self->Socket($sock);
$self->State(Connected);
$sock->autoflush(1);
}

The only difference here is that I am setting the state to
Connected, and there is a method that *should* do that as
well, but
I could not get it to work right. (Yes, and also
autoflush, but you
could do that in step 1 as well if you wanted to.)

That did the trick for me!

[Arnab K Rana]

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I would like to request an easier way for users of IMAPasassin to take advantage of SSL support. Perhaps a simple option in the configuration file would be useful?