Christophe Chisogne wrote:
raditha dissanayake a écrit :
at the risk of starting a flame war: IMAP is the devine way of using email. POP3 sux. :-)
IMAP being a general file access protocol, there are inherent security problems to be aware of. On some srv, you could easily get /etc/passwd by simply knowing a single user/password.
Please explain how.
1. it's unsecure (clear text password) -- but can be improved (APOP, POP3+SSL etc)
you can use SSL with IMAP too.
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