"Oliver" == Oliver Kiddle <okiddle(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> writes:
>> For those of you who would like TLS support for POP, does doing
>> something like:
>>
>> % inc -host popserver -proxy "openssl s_client -quiet -connect
>> %h:995" work?
>>
>> (I'm not sure how much that code has been exercised).
Oliver> Probably not much because -proxy was a relatively recent
Oliver> addition by me (based on someone else's earlier patch).
Oliver> It's not an uncommon idiom - fetchmail has a plugin option
Oliver> that does the same thing.
Oliver> I mostly used it with ssh as the proxy as a way to
Oliver> circumvent a firewall. However, I'm fairly sure that I've
Oliver> had it do SSL with stunnel rather than openssl. Certainly,
Oliver> it's a lot easier than adding TLS support directly to nmh.
Oliver> Main problem with the -proxy option is you can't really use
Oliver> it from .mh_profile without a wrapper script because we
Oliver> don't have shell quoting in .mh_profile.
How about if --ssl just turned into the above, then we wouldn't need to
have shell quoting, etc...
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