[Gllug] Mail servers

[Jack Bertram]

* Doug Winter <doug at pigeonhold.com> [030930 13:21]:
> 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.

Sure.  But, assuming that I don't mind my users' passwords being
(potentially) sniffed, is my server more likely to be cracked through
running a POP3 server as well?

jack

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