[TAG] 2c tip - debugging POP3 over ssl

[Neil Youngman]

On Monday 28 Nov 2005 13:40, Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:
> Hi, Neil -
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:19:52AM +0000, Neil Youngman wrote:
> > I had to run stunnel as root, as it was unable to create a file it
> > required otherwise. This may not be necessary with all configurations
> >
> > neil ~ 06:44:39 501 > /usr/sbin/stunnel -c -f -d 2020 -r
> > pop.googlemail.com:995
> > 2005.11.28 07:14:55 LOG5[6414:3083712896]: Using 'pop.googlemail.com.995'
> > as tcpwrapper service name
> > 2005.11.28 07:14:55 LOG5[6414:3083712896]: stunnel 3.26 on
> > i486-pc-linux-gnu PTHREAD+LIBWRAP with OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005
> > 2005.11.28 07:14:55 LOG3[6414:3083712896]: Cannot create pid
> > file /var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pop.googlemail.com.995.pid
> > 2005.11.28 07:14:55 LOG3[6414:3083712896]: create: Permission denied (13)
> > neil ~ 07:14:55 502 >
>
> This can be avoided by telling 'stunnel' to create a lock in a writeable
> directory:
>
> ``
> stunnel -c -f -d 2020 -r pop.googlemail.com:995 -P ~/stunnel.lock

Seems to work. I chose to use /tmp rather than ~

/usr/sbin/stunnel -c -f -d 2020 -r pop.googlemail.com:995 -P /tmp/

Does anyone on TAG have any idea how long it takes to get something other than 
an automated reply from gmail support?

Neil