On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 17:31, Mike Abbott <michael.abb...@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). 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).
