If I am not mistaken SPA just means SASL. Outlook will select one of the SASL mechanisms it has support for.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.
Alexey
