Secure eMail Connections
Vex.Net supports SSL encrypted POP3 and IMAP connections (pop3s and imaps). If your email client supports it, make sure its settings are defined to connect to port 993 for imaps, and 995 for pop3s. Most mail clients will do this automatically if you select SSL encryption.
Non-SSL Capable Email Clients
If your email client does not support SSL encryption, you can use stunnel to wrap your mail connection with SSL encryption.
Download and install stunnel, then run it with a command like this for imaps (change the 993 to 995 for pop3s):
stunnel -f -D 7 -c -d 993 -r mail.vex.net:993
Then set your email client to connect to "localhost" instead of mail.vex.net, and to use the appropriate port for imaps or pop3s. With the above running, your local stunnel will forward all data, encrypted, to mail.vex.net.
Note the above settings run stunnel in the foreground with a lot of debugging output. When you are satisfied it is working, you may want to remove the -f -D 7 arguments. See the stunnel documentation for more information.
If you are running windows, you can set up the windows version of stunnel to run automatically as a service. See the FAQ on stunnel web site for details.
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