On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:24:09AM +0100, William Leese wrote:
> On Monday 19 March 2001 00:41, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:04:02PM +0100, William Leese wrote:
> > > knowing basically nothing about imap and ssl where would i look first to
> > > see if this is suitable and how it can be used?
> >
> > check to see if they have the imap-ssl port open (i don't know it
> > offhand) or the pop3-ssl...  they probably don't.
> 
> yatsu:$  nmap -sS  pop.provider.nl

ummm some isps don't take kindly to being portscanned, there is more
subtle and less obnoxious ways to find out.

> Port       State       Service
> 22/tcp     open        ssh                     
> 23/tcp     open        telnet                  
> 25/tcp     open        smtp                    
> 110/tcp    open        pop-3                   
> 111/tcp    open        sunrpc                  
> 113/tcp    open        auth                    
> 587/tcp    open        submission              
> 995/tcp    open        pop3s                   
> 1023/tcp   open        unknown
> 
> could pop3s be what i'm looking for?

yes:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ cat /etc/services | grep pop3s
pop3s           995/tcp                         # POP-3 over SSL
pop3s           995/udp                         # POP-3 over SSL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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