How to use secure POP with mutt?

How do I use secure pop3 with mutt? I tried using mutt
pops://userassword@server.com but that fails. What should I use? imaps
works okay but but just keeps giving "Fetching message ..." and does
nothing but just locks up mutt and I have to kill it and I did not get
any reply to my previous post about this. So I need pop3, I guess. Can
anyone help?

Regards,
Bill

* Bill <billg@hotmail.com> [13 Apr 2004 23:35:24 GMT]:

> How do I use secure pop3 with mutt? I tried using mutt
> pops://userassword@server.com but that fails.

pops://[username@]popserver[ort]/ is the correct way to access a remotely
stored mail folder with POP3/SSL. How is your attempt failing? What version
of mutt are you running?

> What should I use? imaps works okay but but just keeps giving "Fetching
> message ..." and does nothing but just locks up mutt

So it works okay and yet it doesn't? Clarify. Do you have access to check
logs on the mail server?

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Sahil Tandon <sahil@despammed.com>

Sahil Tandon <sahil@despammed.com> wrote in message news:<slrnc7p08v.mo9.sahil@sam.unet.brandeis.edu>. ..
> * Bill <billg@hotmail.com> [13 Apr 2004 23:35:24 GMT]:
>
> > How do I use secure pop3 with mutt? I tried using mutt
> > pops://userassword@server.com but that fails.

What about fetchmail? I use fetchmail for polling my mails from the
pop account and mutt for reading them. You can easily define a command
in mutt which launches fetchmail with the following in your .muttrc:

macro index "G" "<shell-escape>fetchmail --all \n"

my .fetchmailrc looks like this:

poll pop3.web.de with proto POP3
user 'pop3user' ssl password 'pop3passwd' is 'chrissie' here

fetchmail has no problem with ssl at all.
Hope that helps, works great for me!