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Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing


From: scott hollatz <shollatz () D UMN EDU>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:27:33 -0500

We are still experiencing problems with usernames that have been
compromised.

Although there is not much that can be done when users send his/her
username and password to a spammer, I am trying to find out if
universities are still allowing users to POP mail and, if so, is it
secure POP??
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We offer POP on SSL or STARTTLS connects only.

Due to an interesting mis-feature of recent Windows systems, we
will be offerring POP as an opt-in only service.

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