Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:53:09 -0400 From: Andrew Bogecho <andrewb@cs.mcgill.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD security Message-ID: <20000613105308.T13894@cs.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: <394643E0.39D8C59E@exit1.com>; from Tara Vitori on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 10:23:28AM -0400 References: <39452BA4.D77A1E55@exit1.com> <394555F6.1C174377@nisser.com> <394643E0.39D8C59E@exit1.com>
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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 > > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Eboa (ingenieursburo Office Automation) web. http://eboa.com/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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