On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:36, Rick Moen wrote: > It's fun to play with -- but often there are better answers. E.g., > instead of POP3 over SSH, you might be better off doing POP3 over SSL.
I can see from most MUAs (both Win and Linux based) that POP3 and SMTP(?) over SSL is supported (well, at least I see that "use SSL" checkbox), and I haven't really seen any MUA that uses SSH. But SSH is used for tunneling, so the SSH tunnel must be working transparently regardless of the MUA, which operates like it would without the tunnel. I'm merely speculating here, so correct me if I'm wrong. My real question is, is setting up POP3 over SSL a tedious task? Say, more tedious than setting up SSH? > Rather than sftp or (and this would be _really_ difficult, if you can do > it at all) ftp over SSH, it's a lot easier to just do scp. scp is > universal, and there are even graphical front-ends. See: > http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/security/ssh-clients SCP is included with the OpenSSH suite. Is it safe to assume it uses the exact same protocols that SFTP uses, only with a different set of command instructions? -- Joon Guillen ================================ So computers are tools of the Devil? thought Newt. He had no problem believing it. Computers had to be the tools of _somebody_, and he knew for certain that it definitely wasn't him. from "Good Omens", Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
