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> El 26 jun 2018, a las 20:51, Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com> escribió:
> 
>> On 06/25/2018 07:40 AM, Matthew R. Trower wrote:
>> Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com> writes:
> [...]
> 
>>> Well, my point is that dtmail isn't really safe to use on the
>>> Internet. I'm only half-way joking when I say I want to kill it.  But
>>> dtmail has been around since the beginning of CDE, so I won't kill it
>>> - I will advise not using though in it's current state.
>>> 
>>> I had briefly talked to one of the original developers of it (he
>>> emailed me out of the blue one day), and he told me he had introduced
>>> a lot of things like SSL support and the like that for some reason
>>> never made it into the TOG code base.
>>> 
>>> He is retired now, and mentioned he might take up trying to fix it up
>>> again, but that was 2-3 years ago and I haven't heard a peep from him
>>> since.  I don't blame him really :)
>> Can you comment on what it needs to pass muster?  I mark critical issues
>> as proper imap synchronization capabilities (so it can actually fit into
>> a modern mail workflow; right now IMAP support seems like glorified
>> POP), and SSL support (for security).
>> Of course, people might like things like multiple account support, but
>> I'd count these as amenities rather than core needs.
> 
> I think it should at least support TLS/SSL for IMAP.  I'm wondering if it 
> could be made to work via stunnel4 or some such.  At anyrate, it should be 
> secure.
> 
> I believe in the old days, I used it internally with POP which worked "ok".  
> I never tried IMAP.
> 

What about using libcurl for IMAP/POP with SSL support? We wouldn’t reinvent 
the wheel...

Regards

J. C. 

> 


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