On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:22:09PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:03:53AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > > > Anton Shterenlikht writes: > > > > I'd be more worried that your password is sent as plaintext over > > > > the network using e.g. POP3. You should use the --ssl option if > > > > your mailserver allows it. > > > > > > it looks like it doesn't allow ssl. > > > > It is my understanding ISPs - at least those in the > > U.S. oriented to the home user - rarely do, It's a non-trivial > > amount of work to get working and then monitor for correct behavior > > and possible breaches. > > Agreed. Which is exactly why I like xs4all so much. :-) They do provide these > kinds of services. > > But I would expect a university network (which I understand what the OP is > talking about) to offer something more sophisticated than plain POP3. I would
it's IMAP-4 server, whatever that means.. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
