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.
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:05, 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.
Hmm:
nils@wombat:~> ldd /usr/libexec/mailcheck-applet|grep ssl libssl.so.4 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.4 (0x40b22000) nils@wombat:~>
I guess that it tries to use SSL and falls back to non-SSL if not available. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Nils
A quick nmap reveals that it is not first attempting to use secure imap.
Nils Philippsen wrote:
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:05, 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.
Hmm:
nils@wombat:~> ldd /usr/libexec/mailcheck-applet|grep ssl libssl.so.4 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.4 (0x40b22000) nils@wombat:~>
I guess that it tries to use SSL and falls back to non-SSL if not available. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Nils
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...
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...
Never mind. I didn't change anything, but it's working now. Thanks for the suggestion.
Justin Georgeson wrote:
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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