Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 00:44:41 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Andrew Otwell <andrew@networkcomputerz.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: IMAP over SSL Message-ID: <20000210004441.C69482@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <38A19D6D.51027FD@networkcomputerz.com>; from andrew@networkcomputerz.com on Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:01:33PM -0500 References: <38A19D6D.51027FD@networkcomputerz.com>
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On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:01:33PM -0500, Andrew Otwell wrote:
> Anyone know of an IMAP server that'll run over SSL and encrypt all
> server=>client transfers? The clients I know of that support this is
> Netscape Messenger (my pref) and MS Outlook Express. There's probably
> many more.
This is very easy to do using stunnel from the ports. On the IMAP
server, go to the ports and build stunnel, then just,
# stunnel -d 993 -l /usr/local/libexec/imapd -- imapd
And stunnel will wait for SSL connections on port 993. It will then
start up IMAP (analogous to inetd) and you are going.
One caveat, I did have weird problems getting stunnel to work properly
in daemon mode. I hope it was just some weirdness due to the fact I am
running it on 2.2.8-STABLE. If you have the same problem, let me
know. I found a way to fix it for my case.
As an added bonus, I start up a couple of stunnels at boot from
/usr/local/etc/rc.d, here a script,
#!/bin/sh
#
# imapsd - cjc, 2000/01/17: Runs secure IMAP by tunneling
# with stunnel(8)
DAEMON=/usr/local/libexec/imapd
CMD=imapd
SPORT=993
STUNNEL=/usr/local/sbin/stunnel
PIDFILE=/var/run/stunnel.imapd.pid
case "$1" in
'start')
if [ -x $STUNNEL -a -x $DAEMON ]; then
$STUNNEL -d $SPORT -l $DAEMON -- $CMD
echo -n " `basename $0 | sed 's/.sh$//'`"
fi
;;
'stop')
if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
kill -TERM `cat $PIDFILE`
fi
;;
*)
echo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
#End - Not Reached
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Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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