Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
>In response to the recent squirrelmail discussion, SquirrelMail, which I once
>used heavily, is only as secure as the protocols over which it's running. I
>would recommend using a HTTPS server, and having the IMAP server on the same
>machine.
>
>IMAP is only an "insecure" protocol as much as POP or HTTP. For webmail,
>IMAP is by far the best way to go, unless you want to restrict yourself to
>having the mailserver local and setting up a direct Maildir interface or
>stored the mail in a database, which would probably be substantially faster.
>
>IMAP has native support for multiple folders, message statuses, and so forth.
>You can have your webmail match your mail in Outlook or Kmail, since it's all
>server-stored with IMAP.
>
>Now, with that said, IMAP is *not* a secure protocol, but IMAPS is :). Most
>IMAP-supporting mail clients also support IMAPS. I'm not sure whether
>Squirrelmail has IMAPS support offhand.
>
IMP from horde.org support imap/ssl & imap/ssl/novalidate-cert for self
signed ca certs based sites.
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