From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCXqW-0000e4-0b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:58:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1O7vWW1019225; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:57:32 GMT Received: from badcomputer.org ([24.67.28.241]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1O7rYV9002993 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:53:35 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.102] (helo=virgo.badcomputer.org) by badcomputer.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCT3H-0002tl-A8 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:51:27 -0800 From: darren kirby Organization: Badcomputer Org. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:53:28 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <1140723385.2914.5.camel@camille.espersunited.com> In-Reply-To: <1140723385.2914.5.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1165084.XJOmqkmWh7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200602232353.33538.bulliver@badcomputer.org> X-Archives-Salt: ad2dd8aa-f3d7-49d1-8047-647509b41922 X-Archives-Hash: 867dee753bc9bbc43fc4cff030aa66ab --nextPart1165084.XJOmqkmWh7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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: =A0our 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=20 want to check that the clients you will be using support it. This=20 documentation will get you up to speed on your options: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication =2Dd =2D-=20 darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." =2D Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 --nextPart1165084.XJOmqkmWh7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBD/rt9wPD5Cr/3CJgRAktAAKDwD9aluZ24euTwACLUm/25rRJSTQCgjmth wbSf00IOe/SMehKysqxTTgo= =VD5D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1165084.XJOmqkmWh7-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list