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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index c22d58ae..eeacab2f 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/10/29 18:21:39 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/11/02 16:25:06 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ IP address?</a><br> <a href="#K2">K2. How can I use fetchmail with IPv6 and IPsec?</a><br> <a href="#K3">K3. How can I get fetchmail to work with ssh?</a><br> <a href="#K4">K4. What do I have to do to use the IMAP-GSS protocol?</a><br> +<a href="#K5">K5. How can I use fetchmail with SSL?</a><br> <h1>Runtime fatal errors:</h1> @@ -1468,6 +1469,31 @@ Now you don't have to worry about your password appearing in cleartext in your .fetchmailrc, or across the network.<p> <hr> +<h2><a name="K5">K5. How can I use fetchmail with SSL?</a></h2> + +The U.S. government's never-to-be-sufficiently-damned EAR regulations +prevent me from including SSL library hooks in the distribution. +However, the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution hasn't been +eviscerated (not yet, anyway -- our would-be totalitarians are still +working on trashing the Second Amendment).<P> + +I can therefore <em>tell</em> you, in documentation, that there +appears to be a way to set up an SSL command chain using the `plugin' +option (originally designed for handling proxy connections across +firewalls).<P> + +Get your hands on the <a +href="http://www.psy.uq.edu.au:8080/~ftp/Crypto/">SSLEay</a> code. +Now make yourself a script called `ssl_connect' that calls the SSLeay +utility `s_client' as follows:<P> + +<pre> +/usr/local/ssl/bin/s_client -quiet -ssl2 -connect $1:$2 +</pre> + +Now add `plugin ssl_connect' to the server options for your connection.<P> + +<hr> <h2><a name="R1">R1. Fetchmail isn't working, and -v shows `SMTP connect failed' messages.</a></h2> Fetchmail itself is probably working, but your SMTP port 25 listener @@ -2184,7 +2210,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.<P> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/10/29 18:21:39 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/11/02 16:25:06 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |