POP via SSL

I run popper on my SuSE 7.2 system to support remote retrieval of email using MS Outlook 2000 (which supports POP and not IMAP). I'd like to enable the MS Outlook feature that forces an SSL connection to my POP server. How do I enable this? I apologize for what is probably a very common and obvious question, but I am not familiar enough with OpenSSL to know whether there is a generic mechanism for redirecting requests over an SSL connection to an otherwise SSL-unaware application. I suspect there is and that that is the appropriate way to solve the problem. I'll be happy to do the legwork if someone can point me to relevant documentation. Thanks much. -- Eric