On Friday 28 March 2008 16:12:24 Bill Campbell wrote:
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
I have port 143 open so that I can get my mail when away from home. Occasionally, though, my router reports things like
You should be using secure IMAP on port 933, not port 143 where everything is sent in clear text. I don't know about other IMAP servers, but courier-imap handles this by default.
Most current e-mail clients allow one to set this up easily, either directly or using TLS to request a secure connection on an initial connection to port 143.
This doesn't keep people from trying dictionary attacks via imaps, but it does prevent them from sniffing the connections. Of course you are using good passwords n'est pas?
Not as strong as system passwords. I'll think this one through, thanks.
Anne