On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 11:47:20PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 12:53:04PM -0700, Joseph R. Junkin wrote:
> > What exactly is APOP?
>
> APOP is an authentication mechanism for POP, in which passwords are not
> transmitted cleartext but *do* need to be in a cleartext-list on the
> server.
Which is the reason I'll never use it.
> > Is it supported by outlook and Netscape (ie typical clients)?
>
> As far as I know, yes.
Nope. The only client (afaik) that supports APOP is Eudora. I know for sure
that Outlook and Outlook Express do not, and I'm pretty sure that Netscape
doesn't either.
The most supported way of doing (more) secure email is to run it over SSL.
--Adam
