Hi folks! Im thinking about offering IMAP-services to our users, but Im concerned about possibly security issues... Ive heard that the most IMAP-servers for Linux are not secure. Can you confirm this? Which IMAP-Server should I use if Im interessted on security rather than powerfull functionality? Thanks in advance! JLT
Dear Jose, If you use stunnel you can turn any IMAP server into a secure one. You run it on your server, it listens on the secure IMAP port and unencrypts the data before passing it to the ordinary insecure IMAP server. See http://www.stunnel.org/ Bob On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Jose Tinoco wrote:
Im thinking about offering IMAP-services to our users, but Im concerned about possibly security issues... Ive heard that the most IMAP-servers for Linux are not secure. Can you confirm this? Which IMAP-Server should I use if Im interessted on security rather than powerfull functionality?
============================================================== Bob Vickers R.Vickers@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London WWW: http://www.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk/home/bobv Phone: +44 1784 443691
With Courier IMAP you don't need to use stunneling. It does for you. Carlos
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El 9/15/00, 12:57:51 PM, Bob Vickers
Dear Jose,
If you use stunnel you can turn any IMAP server into a secure one. You run it on your server, it listens on the secure IMAP port and unencrypts the data before passing it to the ordinary insecure IMAP server.
Bob
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Jose Tinoco wrote:
Im thinking about offering IMAP-services to our users, but Im concerned about possibly security issues... Ive heard that the most IMAP-servers for Linux are not secure. Can you confirm this? Which IMAP-Server should I use if Im interessted on security rather than powerfull functionality?
============================================================== Bob Vickers R.Vickers@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London WWW: http://www.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk/home/bobv http://www.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk/home/bobv Phone: +44 1784 443691
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Dear Jose,
If you use stunnel you can turn any IMAP server into a secure one. You run it on your server, it listens on the secure IMAP port and unencrypts the data before passing it to the ordinary insecure IMAP server.
Bob
Btw, there will be a SuSE rpm package for stunnel in the near future. It's
very busy lately, but as soon as I find time, I'll let you know (here)
when it's done.
Thanks,
Roman.
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