On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:16:10PM +0200, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about "Re: mua which handles very large >mailboxes": > > > > imap is also *plain text*. need i say any more? > > > > > > Ah? What do you mean imap is plain text? > > > > > > IMAP is just a protocol for remote access to mail messages (IMAP="Internet > > > Message Access Protocol"). These mail messages might contain pictures/sounds/ > > > video/whatever (i.e., MIME),and you can view them on a graphical client > > > (e.g., Mozilla which has excellent IMAP support). > > > > I believe that mulix talked about encryption (plain text = not encrypted). > > Thus, all the messages can be understood by the entire network. > > close, but not entirely correct - i was referring to the autentication > phase, where your user name and password are sent in clear text. i > guess i should've said more... >
IMAP also "supports" (e.g: implemented by some of the clients and the servers) hashing of the password. This takes some extra (and painful!) configuration on the server side, from what I read. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
