> Um, why? Provided you set up encrypted password authentication (I use
> CRAM5), surely there's no need to encrypt POP access? After all, all the
> data that's going to be transmitted to the machine arrived there via
> plain-text SMTP anyway. Adding an extra encryption layer is pointless
> and just makes things slower...
>
> (Unless, of course, you actually have a need for it, such as mail that's
> arrived via a secure internal LAN or encrypteded SMTP, or you want to
> hide details of when you read what. But I'm thinking in the general case
> here.)
>

Well, restricting pop3 access (any service that is used by just a few
people) would make it harder to sniff/break/exploit for a potential
attacker wouldn't it?

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