On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 04:59:07PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> I want to read my email on the iPhone. To do that, I have 2 options:
> 1. VPN
> 2. IMAP-over-SSL
>
> #1 is a bit convoluted, I already run a VPN server, with OpenVPN, but
> the iPhone doesn't have an OpenVPN client. Running *two* VP
On 27 Mar 2009, at 14:06, Florin Andrei wrote:
> The thing worrying me at this time is some stupid buffer overflow
> in the
> IMAP server code. I have no idea what's the security history of this
> server, even though I've been using it for quite a while, because
> it was
> always in tightly con
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 11:06 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> The thing worrying me at this time is some stupid buffer overflow in the
> IMAP server code. I have no idea what's the security history of this
> server, even though I've been using it for quite a while, because it was
> always in tightl
Whenever you open services to the internet, you're taking a chance.
I've been running Cyrus IMAP open to the Internet for years and have
never had any issues, but I may have just been lucky.
There are plenty of sources available for looking for the history of
vulnerabilities for various softw
Zachariah Mully wrote:
>
> I went to a talk by Dam Kaminsky of this past summers DNS exploit fame.
> If you want to be scared sh*tless about the potential security
> vulnerabilities of DNS, read up on his work. SSL does nothing.
Well, we're all gonna die of something, aren't we?
There are many a
--On Friday, March 27, 2009 9:46 -0400 Zachariah Mully
wrote:
>> How comfortable y'all are with exposing Cyrus IMAPd's imaps port to the
>> big wild Internet?
Not much point running it if you can't connect to it, is there?
It's totally standard. Actually you need only plain imap with tls
re
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:59 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> I want to read my email on the iPhone. To do that, I have 2 options:
> 1. VPN
> 2. IMAP-over-SSL
>
> #1 is a bit convoluted, I already run a VPN server, with OpenVPN, but
> the iPhone doesn't have an OpenVPN client. Running *two* VPN netwo
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:59 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> I want to read my email on the iPhone. To do that, I have 2 options:
> 1. VPN
> 2. IMAP-over-SSL
>
> #1 is a bit convoluted, I already run a VPN server, with OpenVPN, but
> the iPhone doesn't have an OpenVPN client. Running *two* VPN netwo
I want to read my email on the iPhone. To do that, I have 2 options:
1. VPN
2. IMAP-over-SSL
#1 is a bit convoluted, I already run a VPN server, with OpenVPN, but
the iPhone doesn't have an OpenVPN client. Running *two* VPN networks
seems excessive for a small personal server - not that the mach
