How to Use POPFile with an SSL/TLS Email Account

Once you have enjoyed — or heard others praise — the wonders of automatic email classification (and spam filtering) using POPFile, you'll never want to miss it again.

Setting up POPFile and configuring your email client to access mail through it is easy, but does it work with accounts that require secure SSL (TLS) connections (such as Gmail, for example)? It does, almost out of the box.

Use POPFile with an SSL/TLS Email Account

To make POPFile work with an SSL/TLS email account:

• Make sure POPFile is not running.
• Locate the ZIP file you downloaded when you installed POPFile.
  • If you have since dismissed it, grab a new copy.
• Open the popfile-xxx-windows.zip file.
• Open the addssl.zip file located in it.
• Double-click addssl.exe and follow the installation instructions to add SSL support to your POPFile installation.
• Configure your email account for POPfile with the following modification:
  • Use the "{original POP server name}:995:{user name}:SSL" format instead of just "{original POP server name}:{user name}" for the user name field.
  • To set up a Gmail account with the user name "gmailuser", for example, use "pop.gmail.com:995:gmailuser@gmail.com:SSL".