Re: BUG? was[Evolution] retrieving pop summary

[Jason Tackaberry <tack auc ca>]

On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 20:17, Grzesiek Sedek wrote:
> Just to explain: I've sniffed some traffic and I saw all my 3000+
> e-mails. I'm quite concerned with security- I don't mind someone seeing
> may latest 10 email's but when it's all my stored e-mail's I'm becoming

If your traffic can be sniffed, it doesn't make much of a difference if
Eve can see 10 of your emails or all 3000.  If she can see your
password, then she can do just about anything she likes to your email
account.

So the solution is to use SSL.

Cheers,
Jason.

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