Tim and Michael, > > Courier is v4.9.1 - it was chosen years ago and the decision has > > not be revisited. Not that I'm adverse to doing so. > > I recently chose dovecot over courier and it has been working out > pretty well. If it has integrated certificate support and isn't > too hard to set up, that might be your best option. I considered > doing that as well, but since my cell phone email client didn't > support client certificates at the time, I never followed through.
So, you seem also to be using mutt with dovecot.... User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) > > stunnel would work, I'll weigh it vs coercing imap server to fit my whim. > > In past projects I've always found stunnel to be confusing and buggy. > There are several versions of it and the newer versions just seemed to > confuse things more. Noted. I, myself, haven't used it in a few years, but found it fairly reliable and flexible when I did use it (though that was a few years back). > Recently I've switched to socat for similar features. It's far > more of a swiss army knife, but also more intuitive for me. Agreed! I love socat! It does not support client SSL certificate handling, but it is a wonderful and lightweight CLI and can also function in a pinch as a capable, if modest server. I love that it can connect to just about any kind of file or socket. So much more flexible than 'nc'. > I've never looked into using it for IMAP access (and how you'd > handle user identity info, or whatever) so it would be a DIY > project of sorts, but it is worth looking into. > > I now have a working system and the improvements will be incremental. > > > > FWIW - this all started when I wanted to run mutt from my laptop > > instead of sshing to my server for email. In past trials I've > > found Thunderbird to be slow and ugly and web mail options to be > > cumbersome. I can't necessarily corroborate on the sluggishness point, Michael, but I also love console IMAP and mutt is my preferred MUA (even if I'm using alpine at the moment). > sshfs might be an option, though probably slow... Another viable option for a single user.... -Martin -- Martin A. Brown http://linux-ip.net/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
