Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:47:16 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> To: Karin Lagesen <karin@ii.uib.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stunnel, fetchmail and pop3 Message-ID: <54287091425.20010327194716@buz.ch> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.33.0103271904550.10955-100000@apal.ii.uib.no> References: <Pine.SOL.4.33.0103271904550.10955-100000@apal.ii.uib.no>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Karin, Tuesday, March 27, 2001, 7:24:18 PM, you wrote: > I am currently trying to set things up so that I can fetch my mail from my > mailbox at my uni securely. I am currently running 4.2-RELEASE. What I am > doing/have done is the following: > First of all I installed stunnel-3.14 via porteasy with the options - -aub. > AFAIK, this should also install any cryptografic stuff that it needs? The > reason for my asking is that www.stunnel.org claims that the program also > needs OpenSSL or SSLeay, and I couldn't see anything like that on the > depends listing.... OpenSSL is integrated into FreeBSD since 3.something. > Secondly I am trying to get stunnel to start up during startup. The > program comes with a script that is supposed to go in the > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ directory. From the man page it looks like that > anything in that directory ending in .sh will be run at startup. Is this > correct? As long as it has the execute bit set: yes (although mine lives in /etc/rc.d). But you don't need this here if you want to use a custom server (thinking about it: one always wants...). > Third, the command that I'm trying to start from that script is as > follows (mail.server here being the ip of my pop3 mail server): > /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -c -d 110 -r mail.server:995 > From what I can see, this should be correct. However, it wouldn't surprise > me if I have misunderstood something in this...:) I have stunnel -c -r address:port -d port which works like a charm on either FreeBSD, Linux or Win. > When I tried running this command as root (with -f to get it to > foreground) was: > miranda# /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -f -c -d 110 -r mail.server:995 > LOG5[4174:134582272]: Using 'mail.server:995' as tcpwrapper service name > LOG5[4174:134582272]: stunnel 3.14 on i386--freebsd4.2 PTHREAD+LIBWRAP > LOG3[4174:134582272]: Argument to -P (/var/run/stunnel/) is not valid a > directory name. > miranda# > Can anyone explain? stunnel does not seem to be running on my machine > after this... I think it tries to create a PID file in /var/run/stunnel/ which normally doesn't exist. Now I can't exactly explain this since mine doesn't do this. The easiest solution would probably be to create /var/run/stunnel/ (but this isn't exactly elegant). > Lastly, I would like to fetch my mail through this should-be working > tunnel. I have heard that the way to do this after setting up stunnel as > above would be to poll your localhost at port 110. Is this correct? There > is also an ssl option, but I could not understand how all of that should > be set up...:) That is true. Enter localhost:110 as location of your mailserver and your set (stunnel has to be running, of course). Best regards, Gabriel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.0.2i iQEVAwUBOsDEGMZa2WpymlDxAQGyFwgApI/R852uEPhx+GxpYVN/2gFaEuKPWhIi c5032gX5JS86inW7kfsrzh/MGNjBlUcMv+EARdgRnJAg3Az8efalDAOs/D0WBrpt MskR4ML0SGRan9WCY6R8KYD2R4lvzn4ZRq+t6wv8Jjr1ab7BZgb7JnYLtdO9+J0M gnWljV9C0pQQdmTlw7AnDn2a3dn3D5vrcXinSl8HVs/EmAgRTj8y2dXLcQj6vXat DafUK4KyeVBhDuDHABaTkSaH52v8l4BtP9NPiHAU/BhMpSO2rWER8tEoK/4e5Gaw Qn1c8P5JPXlT0Gsdm2tU67h8yviTHIeXjmqNyiaSGKBHDUAyB+AGBQ== =6XYI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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