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Re: Linux Network Security: POP



On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 02:03:01PM +0100, William Leese wrote:

> having taken a quick look at my providers homepage (which, i admit i should 
> have done first.. but i'm used to ISP pages with nothing but marketing talk) 
> i found something on pop-ssl. However aparently i need an email client that 
> supports it. I use Kmail, but.. it doesnt seem to support ssl. Can someone 
> confirm this? If I can't use Kmail for it which email client should be well 
> suited? I've tried Elm but I found it too hard to use. I've considered using 
> Pine but it doesn't seem to be in sid.

just do mail the unix way, install fetchmail-ssl (from non-US/main or
so i hear)  configure it to fetch all your mail from the isp and hand
it to the local MTA, then tell kmail to use a local mailspool in
/var/mail/$USER instead of pop3.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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