Re: pop3

[Hubert Chan <hackerhue@geek.com>]

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>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@terra.com.br> writes:

Pedro> On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:13:17PM -0600, Moe Harley wrote:
>> Thought i'd ask what the general opinion is on the most secure pop3
>> daemon.  I need to install a pop3 damon on my debian machine, but I
>> wanted to get a good idea from you guys on which one to install.

Pedro> Hi Moe,

Pedro>   All POP3 services are not safe, because they send plain-text
Pedro> login and password. And your login/password could be the same of
Pedro> your shell acount, so people can sniff it and use it to telnet to
Pedro> your machine.

It seems like you can do POP3 over SSL.  I've never used it, but the
sysadmins where I work are pretty anal about security (a good thing),
and they just enabled POP3 and IMAP mail over SSL on the mail server.

PS. Please wrap your lines at 72-ish characters.  Hmm.  I've seen a lot
of mutt users with un-wrapped lines.  I would've expected that from a
GUI mail reader like Mozilla, but not from a proper mailreader like
mutt.  Anyone know why?

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