quoth the Michael Sullivan:
> I upgraded dovecot the other day to 1.0.beta3 and I was altering the
> configuration file trying to get it to work when I discovered something
> disturbing:  our passwords were being trasmitted unencrypted across the
> Internet!

Well, strait from the RFC we learn that POP3 protocol is plain text.

Before settling on digest-md5 (or any other method) for authentication you may 
want to check that the clients you will be using support it. This 
documentation will get you up to speed on your options:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication

-d
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