#6 SSL support?

[Jacobo Vilella Vilahur]

hi, I'm trying to access with wmbiff through pop3 into
an account I have at university, but it requieres SSL
auth. Does wmbiff have SSL support? if so, or if
there's any walk around, how do I enable it?

Thanks in advance :-)

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Gmail just added pop3 support and they too require SSL. The
man pages and searching on the web seem to indicate SSL in
wmbiff is only supported in IMAP, if that's the case then I
too would like to suggest support for SSL in pop3. In the
event it IS actually supported already and I'm just not
understanding correctly please point me in the right
direction for instructions on how to set it up. Thanx.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Gmail just added pop3 support and they too require SSL. The
man pages and searching on the web seem to indicate SSL in
wmbiff is only supported in IMAP, if that's the case then I
too would like to suggest support for SSL in pop3. In the
event it IS actually supported already and I'm just not
understanding correctly please point me in the right
direction for instructions on how to set it up. Thanx.

[Danny Verstraeten]

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POP3s support is added to CVS since beginning of this year,
thanks bluehal!

I can recommend stunnel(1) to those people where compiling
wmbiff(1) is not an option.

In my case, I start stunnel in daemon mode (-d) and let
stunnel set up a SSL tunnel from the POP3 port on my machine
to the POP3s port on pop.gmail.com as follows:

stunnel -c -d pop3 -r pop.gmail.com:pop3s

For wmbiff(1), the following is used to monitor my Gmail
account:

label.1=gmail
path.1=pop3:<user>@gmail.com <passwd> localhost 110
interval.1=60
action.1=msglst

For Debian, stunnel comes in a seperate package. For other
distributions it might still be part of the openssl package.

You can always contact me for any support about this. :-)