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From: Emily Cartier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] POP mail security
> On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 18:52:29 +1100
> "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Emily Cartier wrote:
> That's odd. When I use man, it usually acts as if it's piped through
> less to begin with. More doesn't need a 'q' to end, but less does.
On some systems, more is less. :) Either an alias or a symlink.
C.
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On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 18:52:29 +1100
"Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Laurel Fan wrote:
> >
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> > If the asker does know how to do all of this, and is insulted, I'm
> > sorry, but I'm glad you're insulted because you just wasted my time.
>
> Actually, you didn't waste your time - I d
"Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The list also specifically says not to tell people to RTFM. I appreciate
> that that was not your intention, but I recall glancing at your answer and
> thinking 'uh, that's perilously close to a blunt RTFM. A newbie is going to
> be put off and upset by tha
Excerpts from linuxchix: 8-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] POP mail sec.. by
"Jenn V."@simegen.com
> if I know I'm planning to search a man page I pipe
> it through less. I can save myself a step now. :)
If you prefer less, you can set the environment variable PAGER to less.
It c
Laurel Fan wrote:
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> If the asker does know how to do all of this, and is insulted, I'm
> sorry, but I'm glad you're insulted because you just wasted my time.
Actually, you didn't waste your time - I didn't realise 'man' was paged
with 'more' typically - if I know I'm planning to search a ma
Excerpts from linuxchix: 8-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] POP mail sec.. by
"Jenn V."@simegen.com
> Presumably, since I /think/ the original requester wrote saying 'I looked
> there', she didn't.
Well, the original requester didn't say anything about having look
Laurel Fan wrote:
> I don't know where you get that I was telling her to search "useless
> sources of information". I merely explained how I would go about
> looking for that answer, and I think it was useful, since I found the
> answer about 3 times, in one form or another.
Presumably, since
Excerpts from linuxchix: 7-Jan-100 RE: [techtalk] POP mail sec.. by
"Linda Walsh"@sgi.com
> I typed man on pop, pop3, imap and imap4 and they all came up
> null.
Would it help you if I pasted the relevant part of the fetchmail
manpage? Would it help you if I said
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Linda Walsh wrote:
> It so happens this whole bit of POP security was going through
> my head as I was evaluating the idea of getting a service provider
> email address in case I moved jobs. I requirement would be the ability
> to automatically (perl script) pull the me
> -Original Message-
> From: Laurel Fan
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 6:47 PM
> To: Linux Ladies
> Subject: Re: [techtalk] POP mail security
>
> > Most unix programs come with documentation. Usually this is in the form
> of a man(ual) page. These c
Try looking up about APOP authentication. Not all POP servers support it
though, and I don't know what mail client support for APOP is like, but I
think fetchmail is quite happy with it. APOP takes your username and
password, and creates and md5 hash of the password and a timestamp returned
b
Excerpts from linuxchix: 5-Jan-100 [techtalk] POP mail security by Subba
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> What is the best way to protect my users passwords from being sniffed?
> Can a user use an encrypted tunnel to send the userid and password to
> the pop server?
Most unix programs come with documentation
Samantha Jo Moore wrote:
> > First:
> > My work email is irrevelant.
>
> Got that.
>
> > Second:
> > It's my PERSONAL email that I am concerned about with the POP.
> ... snip ...
> > Does this make any more sense?
>
Yep, its what I should have said. When breaking the various things but setti
"Jenn V." wrote:
> Di Gregory wrote:
> >
> > SO how do I have a POP email account if I can't dial up into the account
> > directly. I couldn't get the POP email to work when I set up my old
> > roommate's I -THINK- because our dialup was a local provider, the pop
> > email was through school (
Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Dec-99 RE: [techtalk] POP mail by Di
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> It's my PERSONAL email that I am concerned about with the POP. My
> regular email address is currently a Unix shell account. They do have
> POP3 setup but AFAIK not SMTP. If they do have it,
> First:
> My work email is irrevelant.
Got that.
> Second:
> It's my PERSONAL email that I am concerned about with the POP.
... snip ...
> Does this make any more sense?
Well, I can see that you have a little bit of confusion over the
different mail services. I would like to stress the point
Di Gregory wrote:
>
> SO how do I have a POP email account if I can't dial up into the account
> directly. I couldn't get the POP email to work when I set up my old
> roommate's I -THINK- because our dialup was a local provider, the pop
> email was through school (NOT the provider) and ALTHOUG
Looks like I confused some people.
First:
My work email is irrevelant.
Second:
It's my PERSONAL email that I am concerned about with the POP. My
regular email address is currently a Unix shell account. They do have
POP3 setup but AFAIK not SMTP. If they do have it, I can't use it
because I
Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] POP mail by Laurel
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> 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
> This is a mail.
Hm.. looks like it actually used the "." on a line by itself..
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Di Gregory wrote:
>
> For our corporate email, we use Iplanet webtop and have a java or HTML
> client that you use through a browser. It's all IMAP, and works fine.
> I'd like to use a "real" client though with my personal email. Pine is
> great, but doesn't work very well with editing the t
Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Dec-99 RE: [techtalk] POP mail by Di
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> The thing that really got me, is that when I hooked up my old roommate's
> email through POP, the school's servers will send it if you're not dialed
> up into them, but when he sent
> Doesn't quite help though. The cable connection I have at home is
> roadrunner, and like I said, I will probably cancel it sometime since I
> have a free dialup through work. The dialup through work is actually a
> watered-down AOL account - it uses AOL's network but not the client, and
> has
>
> I don't know exactly how it works, but secure pop provides for a secure
> mechanism of transmitting these data items, and possibly the content of
> the mail comming back to you.
>
I'm not sure if there is a totally encrypted POP session, but usernames and
passwords can be hidden using AP
Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Dec-99 RE: [techtalk] POP mail by
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> okay, what's this i've heard about "Secure POP"? I'm assuming this is a
> modified POP that sets up a secure connection between the server and the
> client, to avoid sniffing?
Y
> okay, what's this i've heard about "Secure POP"? I'm assuming this is a
> modified POP that sets up a secure connection between the server and the
> client, to avoid sniffing?
Yes. The problem with regular POP servers is that they establish an
ASCII based conversation through stdio. You can c
THanks,
Doesn't quite help though. The cable connection I have at home is
roadrunner, and like I said, I will probably cancel it sometime since I
have a free dialup through work. The dialup through work is actually a
watered-down AOL account - it uses AOL's network but not the client, and
ha
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Samantha Jo Moore wrote:
> OK. First of all POP mail involves the use of two types of servers. A
> POP3 server is used to download incomming mail to your mail client. For
> outgoing mail an SMTP server is used to deliver the mail.
okay, what's this i've heard about "Secur
Have you looked at the Mail HOWTO?
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Mail-HOWTO.html)
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> Hi I was wondering if someone could explain some mechanics of POP mail to
> me. I have a Unix account, which I'm not sure is set up for POP mail or
> not. I know that when I have tried, I got responses from the server that
> said "we do not relay". I tried to set up my roommate's pop mail whi
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