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Email and secure access - SSL / TLS

7 replies · 6,278 views · Started 17 December 2002

Hi All

All the info I have seen so far for the standard Internet Email client for the p800 says it supports IMAP4, POP3 and SMTP

Does this support also include SSL / TLS support for IMAP4 / POP3 / SMTP as well??

I have not seen anything which mentions this explicitly so far and have not been able to play with a p800 to find out for myself 😞

Considering SSL / TLS (and cert management) is supported by the browser - I guess it should be possible for the email client as well.

I think that series 60 does support this capability - so hopefully it should be something supported by the p800

If the p800 does not, I think I may give up waiting and go get a series 60 based device instead :-?

Thanks

royster

[quote="lcs"]I sure hope so!

(If not, it ought to be trivial to
set up an SSL tunnel, though.)[/quote]

Does this mean there will be an SSH client for the phone?

there d better be one, as this is one of the main uses i plan for the phone, remote admnister a bunch of servers

There is already a version of Putty (SSH client) ported to the P800. Yes, the email client supports secure connections, however, I'm having trouble getting it working at the moment myself.

Tristero wrote:There is already a version of Putty (SSH client) ported to the P800. Yes, the email client supports secure connections, however, I'm having trouble getting it working at the moment myself.

Where can I download a copy for testing?

Regards
Bn

I can assure that it does. I have the opposite problem: my company uses MS exchange and that does not support TLS. As a result... No email possible from my P800! I am now trying a separate program ProfiMail which does not use TLS and that works ... sort of.

So you're lucky, I'm not