According to Georg Schwarz:
> > I mean, am I sending a plain text password to the server?
> yes.
> > Or does qopperhave any sort of encryption mechanism?
> basically, no.
Assuming the original poster asked about password encryption alone
and not about the encryption of the TCP transport itself, then the
apop authentication would be sufficient avoid sending plain text
passwords.
If the poster asked about transport layer encryption, then qpopper
would not be able to provide this by itself.
+gg
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