Re: "stunnel" with TLS support?

["Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe+debian-user@RWTH-Aachen.DE>]

On Mon, 05 May 2003 21:02:29 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:

>> I would like to be able to use something similar to "stunnel" to provide =
>TLS-
>> POP3 support to make my Opera users happy.
>>=20
>> Pointers or hints anyone?!
>
>Sorry, not really.  In order for this to work, you're going to need
>to either switch pop3 servers (to one that does support STARTTLS -- I
>can recommend courier-pop3d-ssl), or use some sort of proxy that
>implements enough of the POP3 protocol (including STARTTLS) to sit
>between your users and your real pop server.

I simply didn't know about STARTTLS and how TLS support for POP works -- I only 
knew about the plain POP3 protocol.

But Mike pointed me to Perdition -- which does what I want.


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