Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-12 Thread Joseph Brennan
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> A friend of mine is asking me about security risks of using IMAP & >> POP3 protocols. Why? Because a sales person told my friend that IMAP >> protocol is less secure than POP3 protocol. This reminds me of a concern that was raised about U Wash IMAP and storage of

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> A friend of mine is asking me about security risks of using IMAP & > POP3 protocols. Why? Because a sales person told my friend that IMAP > protocol is less secure than POP3 protocol. This assumption is not > related to Cyrus IMAP, instead is related only to the protocols. > I'm searching at Goog

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-12 Thread Peter A. Friend
On Feb 12, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Jason Voorhees wrote: Hi people: A friend of mine is asking me about security risks of using IMAP & POP3 protocols. Why? Because a sales person told my friend that IMAP protocol is less secure than POP3 protocol. This assumption is not related to Cyrus IMAP, instea

Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-12 Thread Jason Voorhees
Hi people: A friend of mine is asking me about security risks of using IMAP & POP3 protocols. Why? Because a sales person told my friend that IMAP protocol is less secure than POP3 protocol. This assumption is not related to Cyrus IMAP, instead is related only to the protocols. I'm searching at Go

Re: Cyrus DB Errors "DBERROR: error fetching user.username" even after reconstructs

2009-02-12 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:45:58AM -0600, Josh Whitver wrote: > It's actually possible we are using BDB - earlier in the mail server's > life we moved it from a PowerPC G5 Xserve to the Intel Xserve, and we > needed to work around the endian issues inherent in some part of the > mail server,

Re: Cyrus DB Errors "DBERROR: error fetching user.username" even after reconstructs

2009-02-12 Thread Josh Whitver
It's actually possible we are using BDB - earlier in the mail server's life we moved it from a PowerPC G5 Xserve to the Intel Xserve, and we needed to work around the endian issues inherent in some part of the mail server, so I recall converting a database in some direction, either from BDB