Carl Cerecke wrote: > On my home server, run an IMAP proxy which accepts secure IMAP > connections, and forwards them on to the insecure IMAP at the ISP.
That doesn't seem to add much security ... your user/pass would still go to the ISP in plaintext. You would be protecting your access to your home server, but you really should just be ssh/ssl tunnelling, or even running OpenVPN, in order to protect that traffic. If your ISP were not the final destination for your email, things would be better. Can you divert/forward your ISP mail to a better provider? I'm not sure if gmail offers ssl download, but I think fastmail.fm does ... Or you could try running your home server as an MTA, but I generally don't recommend something so critical to be run by people who aren't already good at running mail servers ... (yes, a little chicken-and-egg) -jim
