From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 11: 4:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F5215527 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:04:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id XAA26190; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:57:09 +0600 (UDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id XAA01067; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:23:46 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by localhost.cgu.chel.su (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA01140; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:14:38 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:14:38 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@localhost.cgu.chel.su To: Johan Pettersson Cc: Cillian Sharkey , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: sniff,pass,e-mail clients In-Reply-To: <37C68DFA.D03C1CD0@student.liu.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG guys, could anybody of you (with sniffers) do me a favor ?! I'm just curious, whether Netscape uses APOP and AFTER that (if it was rejected) USER+PASS OR IT JUST USES USER+PASS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ?! also I'm curious about other mailreaders (Outlook particularly) behaviour, couldn't find it in any docs yet ! Regards, (Наилучшие пожелания) Ilia Chipitsine (Илья Шипицин) On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Johan Pettersson wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message