From kmail-devel Sun Mar 25 13:59:36 2001 From: Jason Stephenson Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:59:36 +0000 To: kmail-devel Subject: Re: kmail wishlist/bugs X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kmail-devel&m=98552877604717 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 March 2001 02:56, Guillaume Laurent wrote: > If I recall correctly, IMAP is much more secure. POP3 uses plain > unencrypted passwords, IMAP is more clever. There are ways around that. You can run S/POP to encrypt your passwords and entire connection. Also, you can tunnel your POP through ssh, as well as your SMTP. Of course, that only works if your mail server also runs sshd, as does ours at the office. I generally don't worry about someone stealing my mail or my mail password, since the password generally travels over trusted networks (i.e my ISP or the LAN at work). For the typical mail set-up there's usually no more than one or two machines between the end-user and their email. IMAP may be more clever, but it is slow by comparison and very I/O bound. You'd better trick out your mail server with high-speed disks and do a couple of other tricks if you want any kind of performance from it. Plenty of RAM helps, too. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjq9/UEACgkQRZu1ZcECWs3Z9gCgqN6EMig5TUAmh59IUR4g9StK fOgAnjk0R3E66BVy1U/1YGTX4gRDiRUe =HfJe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Kmail Developers mailing list Kmail@master.kde.org http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmail