On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 10:39:13PM +0100, Walter Krohe wrote:
Hi list, I installed also the sslwrap paket on a SuSE 6.3 System.
-- cut from /etc/inetd.conf -- pop3s stream tcp nowait cyrus /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/sslwrap -cert /usr/ssl/certs/my_cert.pem -port 110 -- cut -- [did the other stuff] -- cut from /etc/messages --- Feb 4 22:23:08 serverlx sslwrap[3408]: connect from 192.168.10.10 Feb 4 22:23:08 serverlx popper[3409]: connect from cyrus@127.0.0.1 -- cut end ---
The Netscape Mailclient trys on my 192.168.10.1:995 to pop(3s). and trys, and trys, and ...
Seems like the popper ist looking for the mail of user "cyrus", isn't it? No, the ident query (man identd) revealed, that the connection to the
Netscape Mailclient cannot do pop3 with ssl (aka pop3s) it can only do imap over ssl. How did you set up netscape? Probably just as pop3 and changed the port to 995? This does not work, since the protocol is wrong. With Netscape use imap(s) instead. pop port is made from localhost (127.0.0.1) and that the user id is of the process opening the connection is "cyrus". This is quite correct, since your pop3s entry in inetd.conf requires exactly this. This data is just informational, it is not used for authentication.
I hope this solution is not only for Outlook (as in the concern of this thread) With Netscape use IMAP instead. It offers all of POP3 and then even more (remote mailboxes, a really great feature if you regularly sit at several different locations :-)
Best regards, Lutz -- Lutz Jaenicke Lutz.Jaenicke@aet.TU-Cottbus.DE BTU Cottbus http://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/personen/jaenicke/ Lehrstuhl Allgemeine Elektrotechnik Tel. +49 355 69-4129 Universitaetsplatz 3-4, D-03044 Cottbus Fax. +49 355 69-4153