Re: How to auto connect via SSH and Balsa?
- From: Jules Bean <jules jellybean co uk>
- To: "M . Thielker" <balsa t-data com>
- Cc: balsa-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: How to auto connect via SSH and Balsa?
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:11:11 +0100
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 10:52:16AM +0200, M . Thielker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2001.09.15 09:29 Bojan Land wrote:
> > and I don't see a place where to put a "command to run to establish a
> > connection"... ? Any clues?
>
> if there was such a thing, it would be _very_ dangerous and insecure. As a
> matter of fact, IMAP itself offers encryption and secure authentication, so
> why not use that?
Why would that be insecure?
It would be much less insecure than, for example, running cleartext IMAP.
Encrypted IMAP has its own disadvantages: at least for the server I
looked into, the encryption is two-way, and requires the server to
have a clear-text copy of the password.
Jules
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