Re: IMAP...

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

"Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote:
...
> > If you want to encrypt your mail password, you can tunnel POP3 and/or IMAP
> > over SSH and obtain end-to-end encryption that way.
> >
> 
> Happily the need to do that is a thing of the past.  The UW and Courier
> imapds also support imaps (IMAP over SSL) natively.  Because of US crypto
> policy this support is available in seperate packages -- uw-imapd-ssl and
> courier-imap-ssl respectively.  Also if you are using pine with either of
> the UW packages, it can be configured to set up imap over ssh (or rsh but
> you don't want that) automatically.

  that's not the case with cyrus, right? at least I see no cyrus*-ssl
packages. I still need to tunnel it via stunnel or something like
that...

	erik