checking POP (and IMAP) via SSL?

[John Mahoney]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:07:29AM -0500, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 15:05, John Mahoney wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to verify that POP and IMAP via SSL are working
> > correctly.
> > 
> > Can I use check_pop & check_imap to do this?
> > 
> > I know I can use these to verify a socket connection, 
> >     % ./check_imap -H my_mail_server -p 993 -t 5
> >     Socket timeout after 5 seconds
> > 
> >     % ./check_pop -H my_mail_server -p 995 -t 5
> >     Socket timeout after 5 seconds
> > but I think this is an incomplete check.
> > 
> > Is there a better way to do this?
> > 
> > Maybe I just need to send more data via the -s flag...
> 
> Try check_simap and check_spop -- they are just symlinks to check_tcp,
> but when invoked with that name, SSL will be used by default and the SSL
> port will be used - you won't need to specofy that.
> 
> --
> Karl
> 
> 
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Thx!

I did not have ssl installed when I compiled the plugin's,
and check_spop and check_simap did not exist...

--
John
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