Sam, In re. APOP I believe that APOP will be ommited indefinitely owing to the support for TLS.
"There is a strong desire in the IETF to eliminate the transmission of clear-text passwords over unencrypted channels. While SASL can be used for this purpose, TLS provides an additional tool with different deployability characteristics." TSL provides a standardised method of layering an application protocol on an encrypted transport protocol, and removes some of the need for developers to re-invent security mechanisms. "One advantage of TLS is that it is application protocol independent. Higher level protocols can layer on top of the TLS Protocol transparently" Most common modern POP and SMTP clients including M$ products support TLS. d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
