[Gllug] Mail servers

[Grzegorz Jaskiewicz]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:20, Doug Winter wrote:
> > POP3 is no less secure than IMAP.  They are both insecure inasmuchas
> > passwords go over the wire in plain text.
> 
> Not true, Cyrus for one supports all sorts of password encoding systems.
> I use it with CRAM-MD5 for one.
It's just like APOP, still not secure. You can always try to reconnect as 
long as you will not get the same salt and than you 0wn someone email box 
too. SSL/TLS is your friend.

--
GJ 


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