Re: POP3 Security Issues

Dave Roberts (dave.robertssaaconsultants.com)
Thu, 3 Dec 1998 09:48:28 +0000 (GMT)

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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Jason Axley wrote:

> Netscape and IE (outlook express) already support IMAP and POP over
> SSL. Both the windoze and UNIX versions can do this. M$ exchange 5 can

AFAIK, Netscape (upto 4.06) does _not_ support POP3 over SSL, it will only
do IMAP4. This is on both Unix and windows versions :)

> (don't think by outlook express either). Eudora may be the only
> widely-used client that does (although you can't get it for free like
> outlook express or Netscape messenger, can you?)

There is a free version of Eudora that supports APOP (Eudora Light I
believe). Seems strange that such a trivial enhancement has not been
incorporated into Netscape still, after all they already have MD5 routines
built in for their S/MIME functionality.

- Dave.

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