On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Ralf Utermann wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:37:16PM +0200, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
> >
> > (This time to the right list) - Arguably disabling plaintext passwords for
> > non-SSL inbound TCP connections from the bad outside world is useful.
> >
> > However - (local) tools such as Squirrelmail (www.squirrelmail.org) are
> > unable to do SSL on 993 outright or do an upgrade StartTLS on 143.
>
> we use Squirrelmail 1.2.11 over stunnel with imap. No problems. I think the
> next stable version 1.4 is able to do SSL on it's own (RC2 is out).

Aye - but without fairly significant connection cashing - SSL, even over a
loopback interface, is a bit of an expense; esp. when you need to setup
and tear down as often as SQ does (right now).

DW.

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