Ideas

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Samuelson [mailto:peter at cadcamlab.org]
> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 10:46 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject: RE: Ideas
> 
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> 
> [Sander Striker]
> > Yes, don't do it. Ofcourse you can as someone suggested with a pam
> > aware pop3 server. The problem is that pop3 sends username/password
> > combinations in the clear over the wire.
> 
> What the world needs is pop3 over ssl.  Anyone know what clients and
> servers, if any, support this?  (I *think* Netscape Messenger does.)

Well, I don't know about servers, but Outlook Express does.  Actually, you
can hack around this, if you're clever.  Say you've got everybody doing text
mode email from a telnet server, and mail resides on another host.  You can
use ssh on both the client and the server to encrypt the whole deal.  I
don't know how well it would work with Win POP3 clients, but who knows?  
	Greg