links for 2010-12-20

• Using OpenSSL to securely connect to your IMAP account | Jaharmi’s Irreality
  A good quick article on how to manually connect to an IMAP SSL server.
  (tags: email ssl mail imap telnet)

Manually Connecting to an SSL IMAP Server

A good quick article on how to manually log into an IMAP Server using SSL is at:

http://www.jaharmi.com/2007/09/26/using_openssl_securely_connect_your_imap_account

The important part is:

As an example, here’s how you could log into an Exchange account, select the “Inbox” folder, and log out:

$ openssl s_client -connect server:port -crlf
? LOGIN username password
? SELECT Inbox
? LOGOUT

links for 2010-12-10

• Best of VIM Tips, gVIM's Key Features zzapper
  A good concise list of vim tips.
  (tags: vim tips reference editor cheatsheet)