On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, 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. > > Viva La Paranoia!
Two ways to encrypt IMAP: 1. imap over SSL 2. (If you use wu-imapd and pine and/or mutt): make your imap conncetion the command 'imapd' (or 'ssh remotemachine imapd'). No need to give your password again. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= 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]
