> Considering that email is transmitted as clear text by the SMTP > protocol, I think you are wasting your time. What possible rationale > is there for last mile encryption when its travelled the intervening > N miles as clear text?
You're making an ignorant assumption that the data I'm transmitting originates from elsewhere other than the server hosting the POP3 daemon, therefore POP3-to-client encryption is useless. You are wrong, but it seems the way you like to criticize rather than educate, your clients probably don't know enough to know the holes in your authoritative-yet-misinformed lectures. > Now, go use Google to answer your other questions. I resent the implication that anything that is not worth your time to indulge warrants a Google search. What purpose do you actually serve here besides belittling others who, contrary to what you seem to think, may be too low on the knowledge totem pole for you to show a little respect towards? I'm getting sick and tired of this. I've lurked on this list for quite awhile and it seems half the time there are these BOFH jerks who sit here lurking just to chastise some poor guy who might be asking for some slightly off-topic assistance - they'll spend twice as much time bitching them out as they would to simply solve their problem. Isn't there some kind of qpopper-pompus-windbag list you're better off moderating? Sheesh!
