On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Chris Wagner wrote:

> Trying to figure out a better way to allow remote users to use their
> mailboxes for a reasonably longer time period you can set SIMS up to "treat
> authenticated IPs as client host".
>
> I guess my question is this:
>
> How much more secure (or is it more secure) / less of a relay opportunity to
> setup APOP?
>

AFAIK, APOP is just an authentication method whereby there is a shared
secret (the password) and the string showing the current time, etc. in the
POP server greeting. These get concatenated and then hashed. The hash is
sent over the network to the server. The server does the same thing and if
the hashes match the user's password is valid.

So this would have no effect on how any of the other SIMS options work.

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