On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Charles Robinson wrote: >1) When setting up outlook there's the option to log on using SPA this >actually encrypts the password. Clicking the use encrypted >connection port 993 encrypts the everything after the password meaning >the actual email data. Is that correct?
Almost; "use encrypted connection" encrypts everything, also the password part. >2) I use imp to access my mail from the internet, but I was thinking why >have a middle man. How about opening up my imap server & just configure my >home outlook to get my mail. What are the pro's or con's? Can I config >IMAP to use SPA or is just SSL good enough? SPA is a proprietary protocol owned by a rather big company in the US. It is closed, so nobody really knows how secure it is. You are perfectly well off with using SSL, which is an open protocol, and not checking SPA. Andreas -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg2
