RE: [cobalt-security] Best way to check email securely?

["Curtis Ross" <Curtis_Ross@xxxxxx>]

> 	I use stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org) to wrap imap and pop3
mail.  If you set your stunnel.pem file with a hostname of "*" it will
work for all sites,
> but warn you the first time you accept the certificate.  (this also
defeats some of the general purpose of trusting a site, but it still
encrypts the
> data through SSL)
> 
> 	I add the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
> /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -T -d simap -l /usr/sbin/imapd -p
/etc/stunnel.pem
> /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -T -d spop3 -l /usr/sbin/qpopper-stunnel -p
/etc/stunnel.pem
> 
> where 'qpopper-stunnel' is a small script:
> 
> ---
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/sbin/in.qpopper -R -T 300
> ---
> 
> 	This has worked out well for a few clients, including Mozilla
mail and Eudora (I have not tried it with any others).
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> - Eric
> 
Hey great info Eric. I've been trying to install stunnel but get a can't
find SSL lib location. Did you run into that problem? It's on a RAQ4.
Regards,
Curtis