Re: Encrypted POP3 Access?

From: Pavel Lozhkin (Pavel_Lozhkin@deltabank.ru)
Date: 12/03/01 

Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 09:35:35 +0300
From: "Pavel Lozhkin" <Pavel_Lozhkin@deltabank.ru>
To: Phil Park <philp@csds.uidaho.edu>

Phil Park wrote:

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> The POP3 (and IMAP) daemon that comes with the Pine distro support SSL.
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> http://www.washington.edu/pine
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> Most of the big mail clients (Netscape, Outlook, etc.) support SSL connections.
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> However, I don't know about secure SMTP support.

Why not ? Read www.sendmail.org about TLS protocol (i'm using that in Netscape)
Second one is to use stunnel from client to SMTP server with SMTP auth, or you will take a open relay with SSL ;) (i'm using that in OE)

> I haven't looked into that (since we only relay university IP addresses, and the university has switches).

The additional security for 0 $$ is a good idea, i guess ;) Why do not do that ? 

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