Re: secure IMAP applet

[Justin Georgeson <jgeorgeson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I managed to get that setup, wasn't very intuitive. I'm having 
trouble with the handshake failing as the certificate isn't signed by a 
recognized authority, how do I import it so that stunnel will accept it?

Paul Gear wrote:
> Justin Georgeson wrote:
>
> > One of the biggest reasons I like the combined nature of the mozilla
> > suite is I get notified of new mail with just a browser window open. To
> > my knowledge, the "inbox monitor" applet that comes with gnome does not
> > support secure imap though (imap over ssl on port 993). Am I wrong? Can
> > anyone recommend a sercure IMAP enabled GNOME panel applet? I don't want
> > to have to leave thunderbird running unminimized in order to get new
> > mail notifications, and don't want to send my password over the internet
> > unencrypted.
>
>
> You could run stunnel on your local system and configure your IMAP panel
> applet to look at localhost as your mail server...

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