This is a question (see below) originally entered at https://answers.launchpad.net/vm/+question/108267 and upon the recommendation of Uday Reddy the question and answers are being moved here. The date of the original question was May 4, 2010.

One subject of the question is use of the program stunnel with program View Mail (run within Emacs) on a PC running Microsoft Windows, in order to read email from a server that requires use of TSL/SSL (Gmail). See the related question, How to configure Emacs smtp for secure server for using a secure server, for sending email.

The programs discussed are Emacs, VM (ViewMail) and stunnel. The platform under discussion is MS Windows.

The original question was asked by usr345 on 2010-04-24:

I tried to install vm on Windows, but when I tried to get the mail from gmail using ssl, an error emerges, emacs hanges-up. Here is the code from .emacs:

(add-to-list 'load-path
             (expand-file-name "~/vm/lisp"))
(add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list
             (expand-file-name "~/vm/info"))
(require 'vm-autoloads)

(setq vm-primary-inbox "~/mail/inbox.mbox")
(setq vm-crash-box "~/mail/inbox.crash.mbox")
(setq vm-spool-files `((,vm-primary-inbox
                            "pop-ssl:pop.gmail.com:995:pass:usr345:PASSWORD"
                            ,vm-crash-box)))
(setq vm-stunnel-program "g:/program files/stunnel/stunnel.exe")

So, the question:

• How to configure pop-ssl on Windows?