[wplug] telnet for email

[Lance Tost]

not when the mail is delivered to my home server.  I don't connect via pop 
or imap to any server outside of my house.  As for encrypting the actual 
message, I would use pgp if I had a reason.

On 17 Jun 2003 billings at negate.org wrote:

> Date: 17 Jun 2003 10:38:36 -0400
> From: billings at negate.org
> Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug] telnet for email
> 
> begin  On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 10:33, Jason Sopko wrote:
> > begin  Mike Griffin wrote:
> > > Am I the only person that uses telnet to send and receive their email 
> > > out of the office, or away from home?
> > 
> > It's easier to connect to a server somewhere via ssh and 
> > install/configure mutt for your mailboxes. It's rather silly to telnet 
> > to pop3/imap to retrieve messages and then telnet again to smtp to 
> > send/reply to messages. Not to mention that you're doing everything in 
> > clear text instead of using ssh/mutt which will allow you to do things 
> > in a more secure fashion.
> 
> Although there are people who will use all sorts of secure networking,
> like encrypted VPNs and ssh, only to log into a system and use
> unencrypted mail through mutt or pine, sending their password in the
> clear over the network they tried so hard to secure.
> 

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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>