Re: Re[4]: The most secure POP server

[Scott Gifford]

"clemensF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > Scott Gifford:
[ ... ]
> >   POP over SSL solves both of these, by making no changes to the POP
> > protocol, but just encrypting the whole session.
> 
> i've checked around here in germany:  isp's offer pop3 access plus
> web access.  with freenet (mobile) i just had to change my fetchmailrc
> to use apop, germanynet (calisto) barked, thay would not change their
> entire setup for just one customer, when i asked them for apop.  i dared
> to ask only because their greeting looks like an apop prompt, and it
> even changes on every dialup...   so much for technical competence.

They probably don't store plaintext passwords, which would make it
impossible to support your request.  Not a matter of technical
competence as much as system design.

-----ScottG.