popmail in busybox

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 10 March 2010 01:20:52 Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
> > I checked the netcat behaviour for my pop server, this is what I get:
> >
> > # nc pop.gobizmail.com 110
> > +OK POP3 TIMS(5.40.2008012515) server ready.
> > <14451.1268202887 at sme.or.kr>
>
> OK. Try to issue USER <your-username>. What is the answer?
>
> > is this correct .. sorry, I don't have the strace yet .
> >
> > By the way, is there any document that explains what is
> > "connection helper" expected with the "popmaildir" .
>
> A helper is responsible for establishing connection to the server.
> Think of, e.g., @gmail.com, which requires secure (TLS) connection,
> and SSL libraries are out of busybox scope.

Every year or so I re-examine adding stunnel to dropbear.  Alas, it's never 
quite made it to the top of my todo list.

It'd be a darn good project for somebody to do, though...

Rob
-- 
Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds