What POP3-SSL daemons do you like?

[Craig McPherson]

I'm going to be trying out one or more POP3-SSL daemons soon. What's available, and what's good? For non-SSL POP3 (which I'll be ditching soon) I'm using Solid-POP3d which I like because there's not really any configuration to it: it doesn't require you to set up its own password files for it or anything cumbersome like that. I'm looking for a POP3-SSL daemon that's similar.

[PLBlaze]

Hmm...that's a good question as i too never used secure pop3 daemons.I've heard about spop3,pop3-lite i belive and few others...google.com or freshmeat.net should have some pointers for ya :D ...then there's always stunnel or ssh that could take care of the encryption.Have you looked into TLS and SMTP-AUTH on server side?maybe that would be an option to have it done centrally.Hope this helps.

[freebsd]

I would say, it depends on what MTA you will be using. Courier-imap -> http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/ comes with imapd, imapd-ssl, pop3d and pop3d-ssl. You need qmail.

Really, whichever pop3 daemon is not most important. Adding SSL/TLS is almost a must. You probably should concern about relaying. You can choose smtp after pop/imap or smtp-auth.

[Craig McPherson]

Okay, I picked a POP3-SSL daemon at random, figuring I'd try them all until I found one I liked. The first I installed was ipopd-ssl, and it seems like it'll do the job. Right now I have it running in both POP3 and POP3-SSL modes until I'm sure I have the SSL stuff hammered out and can disable the non-encrypted POP3.

The regular POP3 is working fine, but I haven't tested the POP3-SSL yet. I've installed fetchmail-ssl on the system I want to connect to the server from, but I can't find documentation anywhere that explains how to set up your .fetchmailrc to connect to a POP3-SSL server.

[Craig McPherson]

Does anybody know the .fetchmailrc syntax for connecting to a POP3-SSL server with fetchmail-ssl?

[ 12 June 2001: Message edited by: Craig McPherson ]