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• You don't need classic to fetch mail over SSL... (Score:1)

  by Elian (119)

  It's dead-simple to set up a tunnel to do this. Not quite as convenient as automatic SSL, mind, but it's doable. (It is, in fact, what I use on my OS X box)
  
  You can use stunnel if you don't have shell access to the machine your mail's on, or you can use ssh if you do have shell access there. For example:
  
      ssh -L143:mail.host:143 -L25:mail.host:25 me@mail.host
  
  will log you on to mail.host, and also set up local ports 143 (IMAP) and 25 (SMTP) to automatically forward to ports 143 and 25 on the
  • Re:You don't need classic to fetch mail over SSL.. (Score:1)

    by pudge (1)

    This took some doing ... I got fink to install stunnel no problem, but it wasn't working. I finally realized that Eudora under Mac OS X was still set to check SSL, and I could only turn it off by launching Eudora in Classic (it was greyed out!). So now I just have two "Personalities" in Eudora, one for accessing work IMAP while in Classic (directly) and one for Mac OS X (via stunnel). Sigh. :)
    
    Thanks for the tip, that end is working well.
    • Re:You don't need classic to fetch mail over SSL.. (Score:1)

      by Elian (119) on 2002.06.18 16:46 (#9701) Homepage Journal

      I gave up and have my eudora set to always use the local connection. A bit of a pain, since I have to fire up an SSH session even when I'm at home, but, well, it works.
      
      (OTOH, I have the problem where I managed to get SSL busted on my mail server, so an SSL connection directly through Eudora's not possible anyway, but...)

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