On 12/10/11 02:39, Tim Cross wrote:
With ssh, you have a number of different authentication types. The most basic is just normal password based. This is also the less secure method.
I'm not sure I agree that password-based authentication is inherently less secure than public-key-based authentication, but that's getting rather off-topic, isn't it? I don't think password-based ssh logins are so dreadful an idea that VM should not support them as a policy issue or anything like that.
However, imap over ssh is rather an older solution. Most sites now support encrypted connections using TLS/SSL. This tends to be a more robust and easier to setup approach. Maybe you could look into that rather than using imap over ssh?
The host concerned does not support imap/ssl, and has no plans to do so. Regards, Matthew
