Quite a lot of pop clients support apop (qpop, for instance).
Granted, it's no ssh or ssl - but it's better than nothing.
UW's IMAP server supports some sort of challange/response
security mechanism (CRAM-MD5? I'm not sure).
Anyhow, it's not too hard (if anything, it's darn easy)
to get stunnel or sslwrap running and allow your to enjoy
the benefits of encrypted email (for the paranoid, anyhow).
Ariel Biener wrote:
>
> On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
> Tzafrir, what pop3/imap clients support secure connection ?
>
> There might be a reason for the Technion's system administrators for not
> installing the suggested software. I am sure the reason is not their
> disconcern about Technion's users security.
>
> If you feel so strong about the subject, take a walk to the CC, and talk
> to a system administrator, and ask him to explain their decision. I am
> sure they will gladly do so.
>
> --Ariel
>
> P.S. Just a reminder to users that sysadmins are there to help, not hinder.
>
> > Since T2's admins would not install a secure pop3/imap/anything server on
> > T2 I use the less elegant solution of opening a ssh connection to T2 with
> > forwarding of t2:110 to localhost:20110 . If you do that you may also
> > consider forwarding t2:21and maybe others. (Actually - I use imap, so I
> > forward t2:143 to localhost:20143). Note that this solution also applies
> > to windows users (if they use scrt/ttssh to open a ssh connection).
> >
> > Then I simply have to tell my client to query on localhost:20143 instead
> > of t2[:143]
> >
> > Tzafrir Cohen
> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Dmitry Fink (aka FINiK) wrote:
> >
> > > Till now I wasn't worried about security at all, but recently
> > > some things happened that changed my mind, and I decided to secure my
> > > system. I installed ssh/ssh2, and almost succeded configuring it (couldn't
> > > they just do the 2 versions more compatible?). But the real challenge is -
> > > "How the hell do I prevent from my fetchmail (for example) to send
> > > my plain user/password over the network every 5 minutes?" Are there
> > > any other ways of secure mail-downloading? Is there SSLed POP or smth?
> > > The solution should be supported by the server (which I have no control
> > > of, and right now it is Technion's T2 server). But any tips for future use
> > > (when I move out from T2) are welcome as well.
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance,
> > > Dmitry Fink
> > >
> > >
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