On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:16:10PM +0200, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about "Re: mua which handles very large >mailboxes": > > > imap is also *plain text*. need i say any more? > > > > Ah? What do you mean imap is plain text? > > > > IMAP is just a protocol for remote access to mail messages (IMAP="Internet > > Message Access Protocol"). These mail messages might contain pictures/sounds/ > > video/whatever (i.e., MIME), and you can view them on a graphical client > > (e.g., Mozilla which has excellent IMAP support). > > I believe that mulix talked about encryption (plain text = not encrypted). > Thus, all the messages can be understood by the entire network.
close, but not entirely correct - i was referring to the autentication phase, where your user name and password are sent in clear text. i guess i should've said more... -- mulix http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/ http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
