From 4ee8d22351243e9a79bb40f181786e5650abae47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 16:25:09 +0000 Subject: Added plugin/plugout option. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2168 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') 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 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/10/29 18:21:39 $ +$Date: 1998/11/02 16:25:06 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ IP address?
K2. How can I use fetchmail with IPv6 and IPsec?
K3. How can I get fetchmail to work with ssh?
K4. What do I have to do to use the IMAP-GSS protocol?
+K5. How can I use fetchmail with SSL?

Runtime fatal errors:

@@ -1467,6 +1468,31 @@ belongs to a username different from your kerberos principal.

Now you don't have to worry about your password appearing in cleartext in your .fetchmailrc, or across the network.

+

+

K5. How can I use fetchmail with SSL?

+ +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).

+ +I can therefore tell 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).

+ +Get your hands on the SSLEay code. +Now make yourself a script called `ssl_connect' that calls the SSLeay +utility `s_client' as follows:

+ +

+/usr/local/ssl/bin/s_client -quiet -ssl2 -connect $1:$2
+
+ +Now add `plugin ssl_connect' to the server options for your connection.

+

R1. Fetchmail isn't working, and -v shows `SMTP connect failed' messages.

@@ -2184,7 +2210,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.

Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/10/29 18:21:39 $ +$Date: 1998/11/02 16:25:06 $

Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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