From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 26 22:11:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.mbox.com.au (smtp2.mbox.com.au [203.103.80.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 989B837B422 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 22:11:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd-freak@mbox.com.au) Received: from nms2.mbox.com.au (webmail.i7mail.com.au [192.168.20.4]) by smtp2.mbox.com.au (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.05.17.04.13.p6) with ESMTP id <0GDZ00BEQADISV@smtp2.mbox.com.au> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 27 May 2001 13:10:30 +0800 (WST) Received: from mbox.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by nms2.mbox.com.au (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GDZADI02.ZTZ for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 13:10:30 +0800 Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 15:10:30 +1000 From: BSD Freak Subject: IMAP Security To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <2a67fc2a574c.2a574c2a67fc@mbox.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi everyone, I was just wondering does the IMAP protocol suffer the same security problems as POP3 (ie cleartext passwords). I noticed that dsniff does not pick up IMAP passwords but DOES pick up POP3 passwords. Does this mean that IMAP is more secure? Thanks all.... ---------------------------------------- Want to hear your email over the phone? faxes+voicemail+email = http://mbox.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message