Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 01:21:02 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za> To: David Vrtin <vrtin@uni-mb.si> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IMAP + SSL Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980221011902.1901T-100000@chain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980220153431.17002o-100000@unicorn.uni-mb.si>
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On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, David Vrtin wrote: >There is a possibility that the traffic on my network is being sniffed, >and I don't like the idea of someone reading my mail. Is there any >documentation out there on getting IMAP integrated with SSL ? The problem is to then get a mail client that understands / has the capability to deal with a SSL-enabled IMAPd. I believe that the Netscape Communicator client can, but requires the Netscape IMAP server. I use ssh port forwarding, which works quite well - it also requires no modifications, and can be done on any machine as a non-root user. (in one window) ssh -L8000:target.mach.ine:143 target.mach.ine -l user Then, you can open up your mail client, and tell it to use port 8000 (or you can change -L8000 to whatever you want it to use) and it'll be crypted. --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) khetan@iafrica.com (w); khetan@os.org.za (h) http://www.os.org.za/~khetan | Finger: khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za UUNET Internet Africa Support | FreeBSD enthusiast-www2.za.freebsd.org '... and remember: WWW does not stand for "World Wide Windows"' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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