[stunnel-users] Sending "LOGOUT" when using StartTLS offloading?

Michal Trojnara Michal.Trojnara at mirt.net
Wed Aug 17 23:02:17 CEST 2011


Markus Borst wrote:
> I have to cope with a very unusual imap server behavior, but maybe  
> stunnel can help me: Can stunnel send an imap command ("XX LOGOUT"),  
> just before closing the tcp session?
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> Would it be possible to send such a command, or could this be added  
> as a new feature?

It is definitely possible, although a clean implementation doesn't  
seem to be easy.  I'm not sure if it's a good idea to keep such a  
feature in stunnel (KISS principle).  Maybe it's better to write a  
separate proxy just for this purpose, and to chain it between stunnel  
and Mercury.

Mike
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