[pmmail-list] long-time question

[Maurice Guéron]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:05:25 -0700 (MST), James Moe wrote:
|On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:43:29 +0100 (CET), Maurice Guéron wrote:
|
|>|>My server now requests using SSL for security reasons. Does that 
|>|>exist in PMMAIL???
|>|>
|>|  No.
|>
|>James, thank you for the prompt, but terse, answer. Does this means that I 
|>(and presumably more and more others) will have to transfer from pmmail to 
|>some other mailclient?
|>
|  I need more information to answer the question.
|  Does the POP mail server *require* encryption of all mail traffic? Or 
|only during authentication?
The latter.
|  Since the server only requests encryption, PMMail can politely decline.
|  I am curious. These "security reasons": What are they? 
A break-in into the mail server.

|Who established them?
The mail sysop (probably the wrong denomination. Guess you'll understand 
nevertheless.)

| What security problem(s) does encrypting mail traffic solve? Is there no 
|exception policy in place that the admins can follow?

Equiped with recent knowledge, I think that a "tunnel" program (originally 
from Unix) can transform the open identification procedure of any 
application into a crypted one.
mg

Maurice GUERON, BIOP/PMC, Ecole polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
phone: (33/0) 169 334 174	fax: (33/0) 169 333 004
e-mail: mg@pmc.polytechnique.fr  
In case of problems only, use : gueron@idf.ext.jussieu.fr
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