Example: badly configured server, angry user john using mozilla and knowing a single login/password on the server (that login doesnt even have a valid shell, ex /bin/false) In mozilla, john creates an IMAP account, choosing '/etc' as directory folder, then 'subscribe' to it. That way, he got many "folders" locally, by example 'passwd'. In that folder, a single mail titled '/etc/passwd'...
I'm a very nice user Marek and I WANT imap support for mail. If the isp is so lame that they cannot setup imap right it's their problem, not mine. And one can misconfigure many other server software, it's not the fault of the imap protocol.
you can use SSL with IMAP too.
We can use SSL with many things. But the client side can't always use it ([very] old mail clients by example). In a controlled environment (where one can force users to use mail client xyz), it's not a problem anyway.
If I want to use ssl I sure need the right tools.
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