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I like to check my pop mail by hand sometimes to delete messages and stuff that are on the server when they have large attachments and stuff
but, I have switched over to gmail, and it uses POP3 with SSL..
is there any nice, free telnet clients with SSL support that will allow me to do this?
thanx in advanced,
Byan
You can't speak SSL yourself, unless you like multiplying huge numbers in your head. :) What you can do is get a wrapper like Stunnel set up, which will do the encryption for you and let you go back to hand-typing POP3 commands in your existing program.
Or use Gmail's web access instead. :)
I am at school right now, but I'll try that when I get home
the problem with the web access is that if you use POP3 most of the time and you get a email with a large attachment, it stays on gmail's POP3 server even if you delete it or whatever on gmail's web access..
I ussually use thunderbird, but when I get a large attachment its much eaiser to download it off the web access so I need a method of getting rid of it on gmail's POP3 server
thanx again,
Byan
stunnel worked perfectly but it is kind of a nuisance to have to have the wrapper running each time I want to use telnet to connect to an SSL server
isn't there a telnet client that will implement the ssl for me and basically wrap the connection by itself without out the need for another program such as stunnel?
just to clear myself up a bit, I would be typing in pop3 protocal but then the telnet client would encrypt everything for me before it sent it to the server..
I can't seem to find one at all, so if not, stunnel will work when I need it to, I doubt I will need to use it too often.
thanx again,
Byan