From: V@nguard.LH   
      
   "R.Wieser"  wrote:   
      
   > By the way : I have little wish to have such a SSL-tunnel program running   
   > all the time, so something that can easily be started and terminated would   
   > be preferred.   
      
   I'm also confused why that is a requirement.  It obviates getting   
   notified when new messages arrive in your e-mail account.   
      
   e-mail client: off   
   and   
   sTunnel: off   
   Result: No notification of new messages.   
      
   e-mail client: off   
   and   
   sTunnel: on   
   Result: No notifications of new messages.   
      
   e-mail client: on   
   and   
   sTunnel: off   
   Result: No notification of new messages.   
      
   e-mail client: on   
   and   
   sTunnel: on   
   Result: Notified of new messages.   
      
   Only in the last scenario will you get notified of new messages.  If you   
   operate in any of the other scenarios (of which having sTunnel turned   
   off at any time), you remove a prime function of a local e-mail client   
   notifying you when new messages arrive.  If you intend to operate with   
   sTunnel off or the e-mail client off or both, you might as well not   
   bother using a local e-mail client with or without sTunnel.  Loading the   
   e-mail client and sTunnel (one, or both) on demand means you denigrate   
   those programs to manual checking.   
      
   For manual checking of new messages, use a URL shortcut to your e-mail   
   provider's webmail client.  You have a web browser already.  For manual   
   checking via webmail, you don't need to trial a multitude of local   
   e-mail clients nor bother with configuring and testing configs for   
   sTunnel.  There are plenty of users that don't bother with local e-mail   
   clients (even when one has been pre-installed), and just use webmail.  I   
   prefer to get notified when there are new messages.  Some users don't   
   care, don't want to figure out how to install and configure a local   
   e-mail client, and only want to manually check for new messages which is   
   easiest using webmail clients.   
      
   My local e-mail client consumes 161MB of RAM.  Its size is likely larger   
   than your eventual choice of local e-mail client with sTunnel.  For your   
   unidentified local e-mail client (you said OE before, then mentioned   
   sylpheed, but now want to leave your choice unidentified to encompass   
   any local e-mail client absent of SSL/TLS connects), how much memory   
   does it consume, and how much does sTunnel consume?   
      
   What is the influencing factor on why you want sTunnel unloaded until   
   you load whatever SSL/TLS-deficient local e-mail client?  Why unload the   
   local e-mail client, too, or disable it by unloading sTunnel?   
      
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