Library for pop over ssl?

[Marco Herrn]

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?

Bye
Marco
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[Jp Calderone]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:08:53PM +0000, Marco Herrn wrote:

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?

http://www.twistedmatrix.com/

Jp

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[JanC]

Marco Herrn <he***@gmx.net> 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/>

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

[Skip Montanaro]

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?

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

[JanC]

Skip Montanaro <sk**@pobox.com> 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?

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

Doesn't stunnel only work for servers?

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

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JanC

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

[Donn Cave]

Quoth JanC <us*********@janc.invalid>:
| Marco Herrn <he***@gmx.net> 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.readline et al. to call sslobject.read.

Donn Cave, do**@drizzle.com