The Blog of Harald

I’ve updated my “SSL Help Pages”:http://www.cfrq.net/ssl/ to include a description of the steps required to get Outlook Express and Eudora to work with the SSL-protected mailservers here.

The Eudora configuration is a little ugly; there’s a buglet in Eudora’s TLS implementation that means you have to force Eudora to use SSL 3.0, and doing so requires editing the eudora.ini file :-). Also, Eudora can’t configure certificate trust settings until _after_ you attempt-but-fail an SSL negotiation, so you have to stand on your head a bit.

Anyway, the new page is “Eudora SSL Help”:http://www.cfrq.net/ssl/eudora.html. some people might find it useful for connecting to other SSL-enabled mailservers using Eudora.

(After I wrote the page I found another similar page, with similar screen shots, over at “Oxford’s FMRIB”:http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/computing/docs/mailclients/eudora.html. Honest, I wrote mine -first- +before I read theirs+ :-)