Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:14:38 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> To: Johan Pettersson <johpe159@student.liu.se> Cc: Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sniff,pass,e-mail clients Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908272309120.330-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <37C68DFA.D03C1CD0@student.liu.se>
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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
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