accessing Gmail on Haiku alpha builds

Question

I use the MDR in BeOS R5 to send/receive through Gmail no problem, but on Haiku it says, "No reply." Is it because there are no SSL options in the e-mail prefs under Haiku? How do I enable them?

Answer 1

Yes, Gmail only accepts SSL connections to its IMAP and POP3 services.

If the mail client doesn't support SSL, a workaround might be to install stunnel (if you can get it to run on Haiku, or have a spare Linux/Windows box), then add a service like this, to stunnel.conf:

[gmail-imap]
accept = 143
client = yes
connect = imap.gmail.com:993

Then set up MDR to connect to localhost:143 without SSL. (Of course, replace localhost with the address of your stunnel server, if that's different.)

Answer 2

It now works on the latest nightly (SSL is an option in the prefs.)