[Cialug] Preferred pop3 or imap daemons

Matthew Nuzum matthew.nuzum at canonical.com
Wed Dec 6 11:27:11 CST 2006


On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 11:17 -0600, Paul Gray wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:11:52AM -0600, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
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> > I need to set up pop3 and imap, anybody have any suggestions on which to
> > use?  Most compatible?
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> Use neither! They're insecure/clear text.  Use imaps.

Dovecot and Cyrus both support imaps and pops in addition to the other
protocols. I think that dovecot even requires ssl connections by default
on Ubuntu unless you configure it to allow plain text.
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