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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:53:09 -0400
From: Andrew Bogecho <andrewb@cs.mcgill.ca>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD security
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Tue Jun 13 10:50:19 EDT 2000

Hi Tara,

That depends on the mail client that you are going to use on the
clients. The newer versions of Netscape already have support for POP3
over SSL. Therefore, you will not have to install SSL on the clients
that are going to use netscape.

Hope that helped.

Andrew.

On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 10:23:28AM -0400, Tara Vitori wrote:
> Wouldn't this require every client box to have ssl installed on it?
> Tara
> 
> Roelof Osinga wrote:
> 
> > Tara Vitori wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I was hoping someone out there could help me.  We are running FreeBSD
> > > 2.2.7 on our mail server.  All of our employees and customers have pop3
> > > accounts.  Accessing email internally poses no security threats,
> > > however, if one should set up their mail client at home to use our mail
> > > servers - their password will not be encrytped across the internet.  Is
> > > there any recommendations someone could make to make POP3 access secure?
> >
> > Use one of the SSL wrappers in ports/security to map the POP3
> > to the POP3S port. There should be an example or two in the
> > mail archives.
> >
> > Roelof
> >
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