On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:03:56PM +0000, Mark C wrote: > On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 05:45, Jonathan Angliss wrote: > > > > 2. Doing this, would this increase my security to my mail server? > > > > It'd allow you to not run an additional service (httpd) on the > > server, but then you have the plain text authentication sent between > > the webservers and the IMAP server (that is not including between > > client and webserver). There is currently code in devel branch > > that'll allow you to use certain functions (from the mcrypt library) > > to do some encryption for authentication (MD5 type stuff). > > Thanks, I'll check out the development branch and see if it will do what > I require.
Alternatively, you could use stunnel or ssh port forwarding to create a secure link between the two machines. That way, SquirrelMail makes an unencrypted connection to a port on localhost and stunnel or ssh forwards that connection to the mailserver on the other machine. -- Bruce A problem shared brings the consolation that someone else is now feeling as miserable as you.
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