Some newbie question for stunnel
Hello, After reading some doc pages about stunnel I have still some questions: 1.) I read that the client part of a pop3 connection (e.g. for GoogleMail) is like stunnel -c -d pop3 -r bar:pop3s However I did not found any explations of the flags -d, -d and -r When I type stunnel -help none of these flags are explained. 2.) Can I replace pop3 and pop3s in the command above by real port numbers? 3.) Is stunnel compatible with SSH servers ? In other words: can stunnel on the local machine communicate with a SSH server on the remote computer and vice versa? 4.) Is there a timeout function? Read: When I start stunnel I would like to exit the service after lets say 5 minutes automatically. Is there such a feature/option? 5.) Has someone experiences with googlemail pop3 retrieval of emails? Is the following stunnel command recommendable for googlemail.com? stunnel -c -d pop3 -r pop.googlemail.com:pop3 Thank you in advance for the answer Thomas -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Thomas Stein wrote:
Hello,
After reading some doc pages about stunnel I have still some questions:
1.) I read that the client part of a pop3 connection (e.g. for GoogleMail) is like
stunnel -c -d pop3 -r bar:pop3s
However I did not found any explations of the flags -d, -d and -r
When I type stunnel -help none of these flags are explained.
http://www.stunnel.org/faq/stunnel.html#header
2.) Can I replace pop3 and pop3s in the command above by real port numbers?
Yes.
3.) Is stunnel compatible with SSH servers ? In other words: can stunnel on the local machine communicate with a SSH server on the remote computer and vice versa?
No. You can do 'ssh over ssl' though. And there is a good reason why you'd want to do that: you'll not be bitten when one of the implementations contains a security bug, the chance that both at the same time contain the same bug is slim.
4.) Is there a timeout function?
Read: When I start stunnel I would like to exit the service after lets say 5 minutes automatically.
Is there such a feature/option?
Not that I know of. The SSL tunnel is broken down though after use.
5.) Has someone experiences with googlemail pop3 retrieval of emails?
Not me, I don't trust google with my mail ;). Jan -- http://www.surfnet.nl/organisatie/jame
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