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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080328/1e6cd670/attachment-0005.sig>