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Re: mutt and SSL/imap on testing



* Daniel de los Reyes (dadecal@s2-selling.com) [010916 07:23]:
> When I try to open an imap mailbox using ssl mutt complains about SSL
> not being available. Is it not compiled in in testing?
> Any clue about what I could be doing wrong
> I open the mailbox using imaps://server.com/INBOX
> If I use imap://server.com I can see a list of folders but nothing
> appears inside

In another reply, Erik has said that it's not compiled in. I guess it's
probably an issue of maintaining a separate package on non-US servers.
If you wanted to avoid compiling it in yourself, you could use stunnel
to provide yourself an ssl tunnel to access your imaps server. I have
stunnel running to provide myself a tunnel on localhost:110 to my mail
server's pop3s port. To do the same for imap, the stunnel command you'd
want to use is:

stunnel -c -d localhost:imap -r your.mailserver.com:imaps

and then tell mutt to connect to your mailserver at imap://localhost/ .
You get the added benefit of being able to use any pop3 or imap client
without ssl support, and it's a very clean and secure setup.
The connections are only opened when a connection is made to the
localhost port; not like an ssh tunnel that requires an open connection.

If you're interested in the initscript I created to set up this tunnel
at boot, email me privately and I'll send you a copy. In that file,
there are variable definitions LOCAL and REMOTE right at the top which
you can customize to easily adapt it to your situation.


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