Suse also comes with Cyrus IMAP, which is a lot nicer IMHO, and pretty secure. You need to get a patch for it from the update site, because of some error made in the configuration, but AFAIK there hasn't been any bug in it for at least nine months. I haven't used UW imap for a while, so I can't compare the two security wise HTH Stefan Evert Smit wrote:
It's got it's exploit and is generally considered insecure, there is an imap4 version around i believe which should close down the holes and give ye a secure service.
regards Evert
Hi all
I'd like to use the Washington IMAP server (Version: 2000c - 110) instead of POP3 on SuSE 7.3 but in the conf file following comment is given:
# Imapd - Interactive Mail Access Protocol server # Attention: this service is very insecure
my question is, should I use IMAP or rather wait for a patch?
thanx Georg
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