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



On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 11:04 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> pzn writes:
> >Package: wnpp
> >Severity: wishlist
> >
> >* Package name    : fakepop
> >  Version         : 7
> >  Upstream Author : Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@debian.org>
> >* URL             : http://vztech.com.br/software/fakepop/
> >* License         : GPL
> >  Description     : fake pop3 server to warn users that only pop3-ssl is available
> >
> >fakepop is a fake pop3 daemon. It returns always the same messages to
> >all users, it does not care about usernames and passwords. All user/pass
> >combinations are accepted.
> >
> >Why use fakepop: the main purpose of fakepop is to advice users that
> >your server only accepts pop3-ssl and they have wrongly configured pop3
> >without ssl. 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, 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"

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