Philipp Haselwarter <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:10:30 +0100, Richard Riley > <[email protected]> said: > > ---8<---[snipped 28 lines]---8<--- > > RR> other machines can talk to it (if you want) e.g your dev machine on > RR> the desk could have the router routing imap to it so you can read > RR> your email from anywhere in the word. > > Just another open port, another socket you're blasting your passwords > through. If you set up dovecot properly to use imaps, I guess you > should
Its encrypted. Not an issue. And using different ports is nothing more than a placebo against any serious hacker. You either trust these services or you dont. I do. Risk v Gain etc. > be good. But I think the shell method is preferable to plain auth. For > you LAN: wrap ssh around the dovecot command. > > That being said - I also still run dovecot as server: for > offlineimap. Dno if offlineimap could do without a server, guess I'll > have to take a look. > > Anyone? I cant think of a single valid reason to not run it as a server tbh. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
