[Gllug] Mail servers

Martin A. Brooks martin at clues.ltd.uk
Tue Sep 30 12:58:11 UTC 2003


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.
-- 
Martin A. Brooks, Clues Ltd
http://www.clues.ltd.uk/


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