It seems to work, but how can I tell that it is actually using SSL because this is the same as before I installed he SSL package?

If you want to use SSL when checking your POP3 mail then the mail server needs to support SSL connections. You cannot just install POPFile's SSL package and configure POPFile to use SSL. Both ends of the connection (the mail server and your computer) need to support SSL.

Your Thunderbird settings are not quite right if you want to use SSL for the POP3 connection.

To use POPFile's SSL package to check your POP3 mail you need to add ":ssl" to the username in Thunderbird, so you must use pop.host.com:account@host.com:ssl and not simply pop.host.com:account@host.com in the Thunderbird settings. (If you prefer you can use :SSL instead of :ssl)

The ":ssl" part at the end tells POPFile to use SSL to make the connection to the mail server. If you don't have this part at the end then POPFile will try to make an ordinary POP3 connection to the mail server.

After you have changed the username in Thunderbird, check your mail then look in POPFile's log file and you should find some entries like this, confirming that POPFile was using SSL to access the mail server:

2008/2/26 13:07:32 2248: pop3: 504: Attempting to connect to SSL server at pop.host.com:995
2008/2/26 13:07:32 2248: pop3: 521: Connected to pop.host.com:995 timeout 60

If the log shows "Attempting to connect to POP server at ..." then POPFile is trying to make an ordinary POP3 connection to the mail server.

The POPFile UI's CONFIGURATION page has a link to the current log file, if you are not sure where it is stored.

If the pop.host.com mail server does not support SSL then the log file will show an error message after the "Attempting to connect to SSL server at .." line.

Brian

POPFile doesn't interfere with your outgoing smtp traffic. So if you want to send mail over a secure connection, you will have to configure your mail client accordingly.