ok last question security n' dovecot

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, July 19, 2004 9:29 PM -0400 "Jonathan T. Steadman" 
<fedoracore at stny.rr.com> wrote:

> I set up dovecot and all is well, but before I decide that maybe I will
> set something up outside of my network, are all passwords secure?

Default POP3 uses plaintext passwords. The Dovecot author was working on 
adding the APOP command which implements a challenge-response encryption 
exchange so that the password is never passed in cleartext.

Another solution is to use TLS or SSL to encapsulate the connection. You 
can then use plaintext passwords within the SSL tunnel.