At 09:00 +0100 2/8/03, Julian Bond wrote:
>The fly in the ointment is that typically both pop3 and smtp ids and
>passwords are passed in plain text. Since it's comparatively trivial to
>log every packet on a wifi hotspot, you *MUST* hide these behind SSL
or use APOP/CRAM MD5/etc authentication for the POP3/IMAP/SMTP logins.
Using SSH tunnels is an alternative to using ssl.
If port 25 blocking is happening, your mail server may accept connections
on an alternate port usually 587, this is often referred to as the SMTP
Submit port. Again connections here should use APOP/etc authentication
and/or SSH tunnels.
f
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