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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: kmail wishlist/bugs
From:       Jason Stephenson <panda () mis ! net>
Date:       2001-03-25 13:59:36
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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.
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