On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:13, Tim Uckun wrote: > I am concerned about pop passwords being transmitted plaintext. Does imap > encrypt passwords? if not does any protocol exists which does.
Both POP and IMAP have extensions to allow minimal security for the password (but still allow plain-text transfer of the messages). Also both POP and IMAP have TLS extensions that allow a client to request SSL mode after connecting, and there are separate ports defined for POP and IMAP servers that only do SSL. The courier-pop-ssl and courier-imap-ssl packages do this well. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
