From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 20 15:21:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24863 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:21:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chain.freebsd.os.org.za (WINS5hbrrvY0WImPtLJPQAU4c+eDIICb@chain.freebsd.os.org.za [196.7.74.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA24843 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:21:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain.freebsd.os.org.za (8.8.8+3.0Wbeta11/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA20871; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 01:21:02 +0200 (SAT) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 01:21:02 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar X-Sender: khetan@chain Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: David Vrtin cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IMAP + SSL In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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