Re: POP3 Security Issues

[Dave Roberts <dave.roberts () saaconsultants com>]

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.