From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 25 7:35:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cornflake.nickelkid.com (cornflake.nickelkid.com [216.116.135.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB9F614D1F for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 07:35:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jooji@cornflake.nickelkid.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by cornflake.nickelkid.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA58390; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:35:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jooji@cornflake.nickelkid.com) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:35:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: nathan Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: pop mail security In-Reply-To: <388DBF07.FEB8FD73@ksu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, nathan wrote: > QUESTION: how do i rectify this so that my password is encrypted b4 > sending?? Under most circumstances, you don't. POP3 and IMAP4 send cleartext passwords. Your only hope of encrypting the passwords (and everything else) in transit is to tunnel the traffic through SSH, and this requires an additional component on both the server and the client. Cheers, Mick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message