On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Greg Olszewski wrote:
> > mean does it encrypt the traffic and not pass it
> > over the network in clear-text, like pop3?
>
> nope. It does not encrypt the session traffic. But if you're
> really that scared about people reading your email, you're already
> having people pgp encrypt all mail that goes to you, right, so you
> don't actually care if someone can sniff the mail as it's going by?
> If not, there's plenty of oppurtunity to read it as it goes across
> the net by our friend SMTP.
i know that much, it's just the last leg of the journey i'm worried
about, from the mail server to my machine. i have a few mail accounts
on various servers around the internet, and i know it travels plain-
text on its journey.
> you could also use ssh+pop3. there's a howto on that.
that's currently how i'm doing it, but i figured if
imap was encrypted, i could use it instead and not
worry about forwarding local ports, ssh, etc.
anyways, thanks for the reply.
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