[olug] IMAPS proxy?

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Obi-Wan wrote:
>>>> stunnel -d imaps -r YOUR_MAIL_SERVER:imap
>>> Cool.  Thanks.  I've now got stunnel working swimmingly as my IMAPS proxy.
>>> BTW, the stunnel syntax, both for the command line and the config file,
>>> changed dramatically between versions 3 (as above) and 4 (which comes with
>>> RHEL 5), and the v4 docs don't really exist yet online.  Obtaining a working
>>> config was trial and error. :-(
>> care to share, then, for the benefit of google and all of humanity?
> 
> Good point.  I'm guilty of that myself.
> 
> Here's my stunnel.conf for v4.15:
> 
> ------------------------- Achilles tendon - cut here -------------------------
> ; Setup chroot jail for added security
> ; PID is created here, but config & log files are outside
> chroot = /var/run/stunnel/
> setuid = nobody
> setgid = nobody
> ; PID is created inside chroot jail
> pid = /stunnel.pid
> 
> ; Some performance tunings
> socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1
> socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1
> 
> ; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting
> debug = 5
> output = /var/log/stunnel.log
> 
> ; Listen for IMAP-SSL connections only on server1's IP
> [imaps]
> accept  = 192.168.2.66:993
> connect = server1.bryanlgh.org:143
> ------------------------- Achilles tendon - cut here -------------------------
> 
> Starting stunnel requires no arguments.  It doesn't come with an
> init script, so I had to hack up an existing one to suit, which
> was straightforward.
> 

nice, geekdom thanks you

-barry