On 10-Mar-2003/17:10 -0500, "Jonathan M. Slivko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:51, Joel Lopez wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, how do ISP's or business' set up their email servers so
>> that if you have an account you can connect from any computer as long as you
>> know the incoming/outgoing mail servers and your username/password?
>
>If you use SMTP Auth, it should be relatively safe, but I personally
>don't recommend it just because of password/username stealing, etc.

SMTP AUTH can be used over SSL/TLS to protect authentication credentials.
Mozilla, Netscape(?), Outlook, Outlook Express, and Evolution all support
this. They also support POP3/IMAP over SSL/TLS.

Tony
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