On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 11:23 +0000, Frank Copeland wrote: --snip-- > The only real benefit of encrypting IMAP sessions is to protect the > password used to access the mailbox. This can be achieved without > encrypting the entire session, only the authentication stage needs to > be secure. I think this is the reason the OP wanted to do this in the first place. --snip-- > You've just ruled out 99.9% of ISPs. 99.9% of email users neither know > nor care about these issues. Sadly enough, you are mostly correct. (From having done freelance programming work for a few paranoid ISP's over the years I'd put the number closer to 75-80%.) This is why I run my own mail server from home, locked down tighter than a <insert vulgar reference here>. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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