secure IMAP applet

Paul Gear paul at gear.dyndns.org
Tue Sep 16 10:08:29 UTC 2003


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...
-- 
Paul
http://paulgear.webhop.net

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