[Gllug] Mail servers

[Doug Winter]

On Tue 30 Sep Jack Bertram wrote:
> [1] I'm not entirely sure I know what "secure" means in this context,
> even, except that POP3 is supposed to be an insecure protocol and I
> don't want my server to be cracked because I'm running one additional
> service.

POP3 is no less secure than IMAP.  They are both insecure inasmuchas
passwords go over the wire in plain text.

If you want this kind of security, you'll need to SSL enable them -
instructions for doing this to uw-imap come with the source distribution
iirc.

doug.

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