Munir Nassar <nassarmu at jerusalem.redconcepts.net> wrote: > > Is there a way to encrypt the authentication to an IMAP server? A lot of > people on google mentioned setting up a SSH Tunnel but it seems to me > like most users will not bother/want to bother with this. > > i guess what i am asking for is "simapd" just like we have "sftp-server" > and "sshd" is there such a beast? if not can we have ssh listen to port > 143 and encrypt the connection? You're probably looking for something that can do imaps (port 993) or pop3s (port 995), IMAP/POP over SSL. stunnel is one way to do it, or get an ssl-enabled server. The central mail servers at the U use stunnel.. http://www.stunnel.org/ -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ He's dim, Jed / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011022/909f4478/attachment.pgp