--- qmail-popup.8.orig 1998-06-15
+++ qmail-popup.8 2007-03-21
--- .././qmail-1.03/qmail-popup.8 Mon Jun 15 12:53:16 1998
+++ ../qmail-1.03.2418/qmail-popup.8 Wed Feb 1 22:49:44 2006
@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@
.IR subprogram .
.B qmail-popup
-is most commonly invoked from
-.B inetd
+typically from
+.B tcpserver
as
.EX
- qmail-popup CHANGEME checkpassword qmail-pop3d Maildir
+ tcpserver 0 pop3 qmail-popup CHANGEME checkpassword qmail-pop3d Maildir
.EE
with
@@ -53,6 +53,18 @@
Even if you use APOP,
an active attacker can still take over the connection
and wreak havoc.
+
+However,
+.B qmail-popup
+can be adviced to use a TLS encrypted session by means of the environment variable UCSPITLS.
+In this case,
+.B qmail-popup
+communicates with
+.B sslserver
+instead of the
+.B tcpserver
+program interface through a control socket, a reading and a writing pipe dynamically
+defined during the session start to be used for transport layer encryption.
.B qmail-popup
has a 20-minute idle timeout.
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