Quoting Joon Guillen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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?
Well, the nice thing about it is that you do it once. By the way, you folks might find interesting this list of almost 100 MUAs for Linux: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/muas > 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? There's a lot of confusion on this point. sftp was introduced (late in SSH history) in SSH Communications Security, Ltd.'s SSH2 series as a browse-and-transfer protocol that functions (from a user perspective) like ftp. Eventually, the OpenSSH people reverse-engineered the protocol and provided a daemon binary that can do the same thing -- except, because scp (a much-simpler file-transfer protocol; basically just "cat" over ssh) was available all along, sftp is rarely offered at all. Anyhow, as I was saying, you can get software that does scp for all OS platforms, and GUI front-ends for the process on many of them (such as *ix and MS-Windows). http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/security/ssh-clients -- Cheers, Rick Moen Ban the Bomb. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Save the world for conventional warfare. _ 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]
