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Re: How to receive mail under WIN95 from another Debian PC ?






Nathan E Norman wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote:
> [...]
>  : I would recommend IMAP.

[...]

> There have been 2 or 3 CERT advisories on IMAP in the past 60 days.

Not on IMAP proper.  IMAP is a protocol.  The CERT advisories have been for buffer
overflows in some of the daemons that implement the protocol.  The protocol is not
inherently insecure--Mark Crispin at UW has gone to great lengths to design the
protocol with security in mind.

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