Library for pop over ssl?

Re: Library for pop over ssl?

On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:08:53PM +0000, Marco Herrn wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi, I know of poplib, which does what I need except that it doesn't
> support SSL encryption. imaplib has SSL-support. But I want it with
> pop3. Is there a library available that does this or do I have to
> implement it myself?[/color]



Jp

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Re: Library for pop over ssl?

Marco Herrn <[email protected] t> schreef:
[color=blue]
> Hi, I know of poplib, which does what I need except that it doesn't
> support SSL encryption. imaplib has SSL-support. But I want it with
> pop3. Is there a library available that does this or do I have to
> implement it myself?[/color]

You can always use stunnel to SSL-ize a "normal" protocol...
<http://www.stunnel.org/>

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JanC

"Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving."
RFC 1958 - Architectural Principles of the Internet - section 3.9

Re: Library for pop over ssl?

[color=blue][color=green]
>> Hi, I know of poplib, which does what I need except that it doesn't
>> support SSL encryption. imaplib has SSL-support. But I want it with
>> pop3. Is there a library available that does this or do I have to
>> implement it myself?[/color][/color]

JanC> You can always use stunnel to SSL-ize a "normal" protocol...
JanC> <http://www.stunnel.org/>

Doesn't stunnel only work for servers?

Skip

Re: Library for pop over ssl?

Skip Montanaro <[email protected] > schreef:
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
> >> Hi, I know of poplib, which does what I need except that it
> >> doesn't support SSL encryption. imaplib has SSL-support. But I
> >> want it with pop3. Is there a library available that does this
> >> or do I have to implement it myself?[/color][/color]
>
> JanC> You can always use stunnel to SSL-ize a "normal" protocol...
> JanC> <http://www.stunnel.org/>
>
> Doesn't stunnel only work for servers?[/color]

It works for both servers & clients.
I use it with Xnews (my newsreader) to access secure NNTP servers.

--
JanC

"Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving."
RFC 1958 - Architectural Principles of the Internet - section 3.9

Re: Library for pop over ssl?

Quoth JanC <usenet_spam@ja nc.invalid>:
| Marco Herrn <[email protected] t> schreef:
|> Hi, I know of poplib, which does what I need except that it doesn't
|> support SSL encryption. imaplib has SSL-support. But I want it with
|> pop3. Is there a library available that does this or do I have to
|> implement it myself?
|
| You can always use stunnel to SSL-ize a "normal" protocol...
| <http://www.stunnel.org/>

You can also SSL-ize a protocol in Python. I'm surprised to read
that imaplib has SSL support, because I don't see it in the library
module searching by 'ssl' or 'SSL'. I've had to do it the Python way,
so to speak: subclass IMAP4, implement a fileobject-like object, etc.
This should be feasible for POP3 as well - a quick look suggests that
it might be enough to copy its __init__ and rewrite it. The fileobject
emulation is to get pop3.file.readl ine et al. to call sslobject.read.

Donn Cave, [email protected] m