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Summary: Question about security



First of all, thank you all about your replies and suggestions, though
most of them weren't not in place, since I stated in the question that I
have no permissions on the server, so running some APOP was out of the
question. I needed some ssh based solution or similar, such that I could
still use pine+fetchmail and not move to netscape's SSLed IMAP.
The optimal solutions were:
1. stunnel - after I compiled the openssl I couldn't compile this
   one neither on my machine (RH6.1) nor on T2  (some sort of Solaris).
   The guy just doeesn't know to write autoconf scripts (BTW: neither do I:)
2. sslwrap - compiled with no problems on both systems, but couldn't find
   a way to run it as a decrypting client on local machine, like stunnel.
   This solution is probably the best, if you're using Netscape at your
   end.
3. ssh - currently working solution. It is preferred to others, since
   you don't have to always run some sort of daemon on the server.
   After much of RTFMing next script was created:

### secure_fetchmail.csh
#!/bin/tcsh
ssh1 -f -L 6995:t2.technion.ac.il:110 t2 sleep 100
fetchmail
### end

the ssh command creates the tunnel, and sleeps 100 seconds
on the background
while .fetchmailrc configured to pop mail from localhost:6995.


Thank you again,
				Dmitry Fink


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