Stunnel: Emailing with OE5 & GreenMail

[PowerPup]

I've lately been trying to find things I can do with my Macs. I had been wanting to do email on my Classic II. But alas, I haven't found any email clients that would work with Stunnel. With or without Baton Mail's help.

Anyway, I did have success with Outlook Express 5.0.6 and Green Mail, using Stunnel to provide SSL. (While OE supposedly has SSL built-in, I could only get POP3 to work.) Both clients support Mac OS 8.1 and higher, though all my testing was done on 9.2.2.

I used the configs from here as reference for setting up Stunnel. I've only tried hotmail so far. but gmail and basically any other server should work.

To set up your client, just enter your full email address and password, and use the IP address of the computer running Stunnel for both POP and SMTP fields. (Make sure SMTP authentication is enabled.)

Whats that? "The proof is in the pudding?" Well, I didn't find any in there, but it WAS good pudding!

Email in Outlook Express 5.0.6 Mac Edition:

Email in Green Mail:

(Ignore the port numbers 8002 & 9002, they were early testing, I just used the default 110 and 25)

Stunnel uses the OpenSSL library. So you might want to make sure it's legal to import/download in your country.

 

[IPalindromeI]

Does Green provide IMAP? I tried a 68k version and all it did was POP.

The only IMAP clients for classic Macs, even 68k are Outlook Express and Netscape 4.x.

 

[PowerPup]

I don't think Green Mail supports IMAP. I'll have to double check that to be sure. Anyway, I did find Mail Drop. But it hasn't been worked on in years. And the last release (2.0d which is author said was an alpha,) is missing several features.

Mulberry also supports IMAP, but I've yet to test it, have to get a OS 8/9 version off a mac addict CD since I can't find any online.

 

[PowerPup]

Well I've successfully confirmed another two email clients. Mulberry 2.1 and SweetMail 2.2r6c.

Mulberry support POP and IMAP, and requires m68k or PPC running Mac OS 7.1 or higher.

SweetMail supports only POP, and requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.5 or higher.

Email in Mulberry 2.1:

Email in SweetMail 2.2r6c:

If I can find a copy of Mulberry 1.4.5 I will test that as well. (If an admin/mod gives the okay, would it be alright to include the serial with Mulberry 2.1, considering that Mulberry is now Open Source? If not, that's okay.)

 

[jonathan]

I've lately been trying to find things I can do with my Macs. I had been wanting to do email on my Classic II. But alas, I haven't found any email clients that would work with Stunnel. With or without Baton Mail's help.

I've been having trouble with Baton Mail on a Mac Plus running System 7.1 -- it just seems to bomb and crash every time I try to launch it. However, I can get it to run successfully on a PPC mac.

Does Baton Mail not support the 68000 processor?

Is there a work around for getting Eudora Lite (or another client) to communicate and send outgoing mail with an SMTP server?

Eudora works fine with POP for retrieving mail from my Inbox. I just can't send mail out.

Baton supposedly supports SMTP Authentication via the Plain, Login, and CRAM-MD5 protocols; while the server I am trying to connect with uses Plain, CRAM-MD5, or DIGEST-MD5 ...

 

[PowerPup]

Not sure exactly what Baton Mail's requirements are, the home page doesn't seem to show any. But my guess is it needs a 68030 minimum.

I think I got as far as your did with Eudora Lite as well. You could probably setup another machine and run a SMTP server that would forward emails to another SMTP server. (If your ISP blocks the standard SMTP port, like mine.) I did this with hMailServer using my Hotmail account once.