Re: pop3/ssl

[Steffen Klemer <masterofheap gmx net>]

Am 2002.04.10 02:34 schrieb(en) Kurt Johnson:
   >  --- Steffen Klemer <masterofheap@gmx.net> wrote:
   >  > I'm not quite sure about this, but I don't see the
   > > necessity for such a
   > > thing?
   > > Your mail is transported over the smtp protocol over
   > > servers from around
   > > the world without any encryption...
   > > Whether you use securepop3 over the last mile or not
   > > is just unimportant.
   > > Everybody who wants to read your mail has enough
   > > possibilities...
   > >
   >   > Well, its not the encrypt all the mail thing that
   > matters to me, really. I dont send any sensitive data
   > over email, much less non-pgp-encrypted ones! I really
   > dont care if someone reads my email, it's not like I'm
   > planning a revolt or anything, heh :) Its just that I
   > sometimes have my laptop plugged in "hostile", so to
   > speak, networks, and I'm not terribly confortable with
   > sending my shell password (which happens to be the
   > same as pop) in cleartext.

Ok, that's a real reason!
Has anybody a clue whether you can tunnel it with ssh or so?
Or is this ssl/gss intended for spop3?

   >   > Oh well, I guess I _could_ use fetchmail but it'd be
   > really nifty if Balsa could do it without falling back
   > to (yet another) external program.

It's only a personal preference, but I like it that way, one program for 
one task.
That way you get many small, but good programs which really do what they 
are supposed to do...

   >   > Thanks in any case.
   >   > Kind regards,

btw: try to remember putting the list in Cc when replying...

cu
/Steffen

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