Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > David Looney wrote: >> Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >>> David Looney wrote: >>> >>>> I also don't want to be running my own IMAP server (don't want to have >>>> to be dependent on network connectivity from my laptop, e.g.). >>> In what way does the offline mode of Thunderbird fail you? >> >> Two independent facts. 1. I don't want to run my own IMAP server. > > That's fine. Then presumably you are picking up via POP from someone > else. I'm pretty sure Thunderbird doesn't care. > > However, if someone else runs the server, then your email has no > security anyhow. Furthermore, at least IMAP will encrypt it on the > wire. I don't think POP does that.
Actually, I believe it is possible if the server advertises the capability. I saw this in some fetchmail tests. Roadrunner does not offer to do TLS (it doesn't even respond to a 'CAPA' request), but a couple of other accounts I have at hosting services do. Guess I should do some tbird captures on those other accounts. It does send a CAPA request, so I _suspect_ it would initiate TLS if it could. >.. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
