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Re: Bug#283751: ITP: fakepop -- fake pop3 server to warn users that only pop3-ssl is available



On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:17:33AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 11:04 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > So, let me get this straight - fakepop will allow people to log in
> > (using their username and password) in the clear and THEN tell them
> > that they should have used POP over SSL instead. Quite how is this
> > better than "connection refused"?
> 
> Read the description:
> "You can customize messages in /etc/fakepop/ directory to teach 
> your users how they should configure their mail clients to use 
> pop3-ssl instead of pop3"

So I can put "All your mail is belong to us" in my /etc/fakepop/ directory,
so that people know that their passwords *have* been successfully sent in
the clear before being told to reconfigure their mail client?  Well, *I'm*
comforted.

- Matt

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