Re: [Evolution] IMAP/SSL, IMAP folders, and a couple other things

[Erik Bågfors <bagfors pdc kth se>]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:29:30PM -0400, Matthew Harrell wrote:
> : Yes, it still violates the GPL - the non-GPL lib being on the system
> : doesn't automatically make it "A-OK" for a GPL program to link to it.
>
> Okay.  I don't agree with that since I read the following sections 

There has to be a way around this?  Having the mail-gathering as a separate
process that's not under the gpl or something.

> as saying that you cannot include OpenSSL (or other SSL variants) with it but
> not saying that you cannot include the hooks for linking to said libraries.

But you can't distribute binaries? :(

> As it stands right now evolution isn't really usable since I can't get through
> to my email without SSL so this is all just moot discussion for me.  If you 
> change your mind and need any help with it in the future let me know.

Have you checked out stunnel??  It can create a tunnel from your computer
to your ssl-imap-server and then you can set evolution to go to the tunnel
at localhost?

http://www.stunnel.org/

I haven't tried it myself...

/Erik
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