Re: imap and pop over ssl

["Andrzej Blaszczyk" <Andrzej.Blaszczyk () atm com pl>]

Hi Jan,

Try Celo SSR Communicator. I am just testing it and think that it could
help. It creates strong encrypted SSL connection for nearly any TCP service
so I think there should be no problem with running it on your pop/imap
servers.

rgds,

Andrzej Blaszczyk
Product & Project Division
ATM S.A.
tel.: +48 22 5156170


----- Original Message -----
From: Jan B. Koum <jkb () best com>
To: <firewall-wizards () nfr net>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 12:49 AM
Subject: imap and pop over ssl


> I am thinking of switching over people who pop their email from outside
> the company lan to SSL. I know that some mail readers do pop over SSL
> and some do imap over SSL (some also do both and some do none).
>
> [Maybe in the long run will have everyone do SSL, even internal users]
>
> I would like hear people's experience in doing this. Did you have to
> standardize on a single mail reader? What sofware are you using for the
> server? How many users are you serving (IOW: do you have enough CPU to do
> crypto on the fly for many users).
>
> Feel free to reply to me only and I'll summarize. Thanks,
>
> -- Yan