"Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: ... > > If you want to encrypt your mail password, you can tunnel POP3 and/or IMAP > > over SSH and obtain end-to-end encryption that way. > > > > Happily the need to do that is a thing of the past. The UW and Courier > imapds also support imaps (IMAP over SSL) natively. Because of US crypto > policy this support is available in seperate packages -- uw-imapd-ssl and > courier-imap-ssl respectively. Also if you are using pine with either of > the UW packages, it can be configured to set up imap over ssh (or rsh but > you don't want that) automatically.
that's not the case with cyrus, right? at least I see no cyrus*-ssl packages. I still need to tunnel it via stunnel or something like that... erik