Library for pop over ssl?

[JanC]

Skip Montanaro <skip at 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.

-- 
JanC

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