[luau] Re: imap

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Thu Sep 26 14:12:00 PDT 2002


On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 10:16, Eric Jeschke wrote:
> I HIGHLY recommend that if you access imap to a login account over the
> internet that you run it in secure mode, tunnel it over ssh, or in some
> way secure it.

Agreed.  I personally always use IMAP through an SSH tunnel, even while
I am at home.  Yes TCP over TCP tunneling is extremely inefficient and
broken in some cases, but it works well enough for me.

> 
> ***Note that this applies to squirrelmail over regular http too***.  You
>    should only run squirrelmail over secure http (https).  On our server
>    we do not allow squirrelmail to be accessed via http, only https.
> 
> --Eric
>

Do you folks have a key with Verisign, or do you run your own CA?  I was
thinking about UH running a CA, free for Hawaii non-profit folks. 
Anyone else interested in this?





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