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Subject: Re: IMAP server... Is there one?
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At 11:11 AM 11/6/01 +0000, you wrote:

>
>On our test box I've installed IMAP-UW from the ports, and that does do
>exactly what we want, it's just that nasty security warning... which I do
>take seriously.
>
>We want it to work with POP, so any implementation must be
>cross-compatible with one of the excellent popd implementations in ports
>or have it's own popd. Also it would be excellent if whatever system we
>came up with would also work with procmail... 'cause I love procmail :+)
>
>> Line of least resistance for you might well be courier and qmail.
>
>OK... how easy is that to set up? I think the problem here is mainly that
>we're all very inexperienced in setting up mail servers - we literally
>don't know where to start, and IMAP-UW for it's faults does just work out
>of the box. If it wasn't for the security problems, I wouldn't be here now
>:+)

If you are that concerned about security then you need to run POP and IMAP
using encrypted tunneling (ssh, stunnel, sslwrap) or compile them with SSL 
support. I just put a network sniffer on my network and realized why everyone 
kept saying these were very insecure protocols.

dave


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