From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 6: 9:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from studentmail.liu.se (student.liu.se [130.236.230.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB1514DAE for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 06:09:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johpe159@student.liu.se) Received: from student.liu.se (b152.ryd.student.liu.se [130.236.233.152]) by studentmail.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B83E40ABA; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:09:19 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37C68DFA.D03C1CD0@student.liu.se> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:09:14 +0200 From: Johan Pettersson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.9 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cillian Sharkey Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: sniff,pass,e-mail clients References: <37C68683.3DC734B2@student.liu.se> <37C68545.A3F19D6@baker.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cillian Sharkey wrote: > > > I use netscape (messenger) as my e-mail client. > > But I discoverd that, it is very easy to sniff > > login and pass when you get your mail from the server. > > Is there any e-mail clients that encrypt passwords ? > > That depends if the server supports encryption.. > > ..looking at Netcape Messenger options, it seems you > can use SSL with IMAP connections which might be one > option for you.. > > Cillian When I sniffed machine A/B and then fetched mail from machine B I could see login and pass. But when I fetched mail from the University I could not see login and pass. So how do I configure machine B to not show login and pass ? (Sendmail 8.9.3, cucipop-1.31) //thx Johan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message