Dear list,
I wanted to demonstrate to management that traffic in clear text are vulnerable to sniffing, and to do this I wanted to sniff mail traffic:
I am trying to monitor the traffic between my Outlook Client and my Exchange (2003) server
Normally the protocol used for communication is IMAP, which is not encrypted
Are you sure you use imap ? By default Exchange 2003 comes with imap
service closed, and the recommended protocol is MAPI.
Especially if you have a domain in your network, this is the recommended
option. With MAPI protocol, afaik the traffic is encrypted.
If you really have IMAP open then all traffic (including auth) is done
plain text (unless you have at least secure imap - imap over ssl/tls -
activated - port 993 or 995, don't remember exactly).
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Re: Mobile Phone ... Should it be possible to retrive my e-mail to my nokia 6600 from my companies exchage 2003 server using the IMAP4 protocol? ... Whether it is actually possible depends on many things: namely whether IMAP support is enabled in Exchange; whether there are any intermediate firewalls between your company's Exchange server, and your phone, that can get in the way; and possible bugs in your Exchange server's or your phone's IMAP implementation. ... Are you intimating that IMAP isn't really enabled and those devices that claim to be using the service are really, secretly using another protocol?... (comp.mail.imap)
Re: dovecot can not find mailbox ... login_greeting = Dovecot ready. ...protocol imap { ... running so that Sendmail could use it for authentication for sending ... (freebsd-questions)
Re: OT: Synchronizing Email between PCs ... The POP server knows nothing about outgoing mail.... Outgoing mail is always handled with SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), and the connection may go to a completely different machine than the one that handles POP for you. ... With IMAP it is almost the same; however, unlike POP, which is strictly a one-way affair, IMAP allows stuff to be transferred from your local machine to the IMAP host. ... In other words, when you send mail through an account set up for IMAP, two things happen simultaneously: Your mail gets sent to the recipient via SMPT, and at the same time it gets sent via IMAP to your personal email repository.... (sci.electronics.design)
