tls self-signed certificates

[Nik Conwell]

On Oct 17, 2007, at 9:55 PM, Craig White wrote:

> OK - what I discovered was that TLS works with this setup (telnet
> localhost 143)
>
> IMAP/SSL doesn't seem to work when you 'telnet localhost 993' but on a
> client that is forgiving for self-signed certificates, it does  
> actually
> work. So much for my testing methodology.

Try this to access an IMAP/SSL server via the command line:

openssl s_client -connect hostname:port

-nik