Yuser wrote: snip
Don't forget about POP, it is no more secure/insecure then IMAP. Both will pass the plain text password and plain textemail. If your already using POP and not concerned about it, using IMAP is not going to be lesssecure. Same with ftp and telnet. Like Eric said, using IMAP with SSH is a very good idea if youare able to.
With POP, once you have the message, it's safe and sound on your desktop. It can't be read or deleted off the server at a later time. With IMAP, these kinds of things are possible.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't use encrypted POP (speaking of crypto, RC5-64 takes about, oh, 1,757 days to break...see www.distributed.net :).
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