[Dovecot] STARTTLS does not seem to work

[Ken A]

On 5/24/2010 4:46 PM, Phil Howard wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 17:31, Mike Abbott<michael.abbott at apple.com>  wrote:
>>> Well, that kinda complicates a "STARTTLS tunnel"
>>
>> Perhaps you might be interested in these commands.  I'm not sure about their portability but they work tolerably well in scripts on Mac OS X 10.6.
>>
>> $ openssl s_client -connect yourhost:imap -starttls imap
>> $ openssl s_client -connect yourhost:pop3 -starttls pop3
>>
>> $ openssl s_client -connect yourhost:imaps
>> $ openssl s_client -connect yourhost:pop3s
>>
>> $ openssl s_client -connect yourhost:smtp -starttls smtp
>>
>
> Yeah, that can be used, perhaps best with expect or pexpect.  I'm
> hoping to find tools that can do basic email functions at a higher
> level, where the user of the tool does not need to know the protocol
> details, but only needs to consider the same kinds of configuration
> aspects that configuring a regular email client involves (except
> without all the misleading and often erroneous terminology used by
> these GUI client developers ... such as "TLS" for STARTTLS/STLS on
> clear ports, and "SSL" for wrapped/tunneled TLS/SSL connections on
> always-encrypted ports as used in Evolution).

Mail::POP3Client works pretty well.
Net::IMAP::Simple looks easy too, but I've not used it.
Ken


>
> At some point I think I need to learn the OpenSSL library API for C so
> I can write some command line tool apps of my own with it (now we're
> getting well off the Dovecot topic).
>

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