Re: Linux Network Security: POP

[William Leese <wleese@europe.nl.com>]

On Monday 19 March 2001 00:41, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:04:02PM +0100, William Leese wrote:
> > knowing basically nothing about imap and ssl where would i look first to
> > see if this is suitable and how it can be used?
>
> check to see if they have the imap-ssl port open (i don't know it
> offhand) or the pop3-ssl...  they probably don't.

yatsu:$  nmap -sS  pop.provider.nl

Port       State       Service
22/tcp     open        ssh                     
23/tcp     open        telnet                  
25/tcp     open        smtp                    
110/tcp    open        pop-3                   
111/tcp    open        sunrpc                  
113/tcp    open        auth                    
587/tcp    open        submission              
995/tcp    open        pop3s                   
1023/tcp   open        unknown

could pop3s be what i'm looking for?