Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:35:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@nickelkid.com> To: nathan <beemern@ksu.edu> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: pop mail security Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001251031440.58110-100000@cornflake.nickelkid.com> In-Reply-To: <388DBF07.FEB8FD73@ksu.edu>
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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
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