[PLUG] "secure" mail clients

deathfox at moochercrew.org deathfox at moochercrew.org
Sat Mar 22 15:19:01 UTC 2003


I'm almost positive the POP has an SSL plugin, at least within courier,
and I know that Eudora suports SSL.  The other option of course is SSL
IMAP.

Those would be my two sugestions, the SSL mail stuff works very well.

Chris

>
> I have a number of users set up, happy and pretty much trouble-free,
> with good old Eudora, using pop to get mail.  This has almost always
> been over a private local network, so I haven't been too worried about
> the passwords-in-the-clear problem with pop.  With the "distribution" of
> computing resources with our impending office move, I am getting more
> concerned.
>
> What are the practical alternatives to pop these days?  What do your
> MS-lusers use for email clients (other than, gack, Outlook) that will
> support these alternatives?
>
> Any other suggested solutions to the problem?  Maybe a VPN?  There is a
> linux router at either end, so if a VPN, which one?
>
> Thanks!
>
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