[UCLA-LUG] Evolution

[Matt Helsley]

On Mon, 1 May 2000, Denis wrote:
> what are the differences in security between pine and all of those GUIsh
> email clients?
> 
> denis
Well, pine is more secure only because it resides on the same machine as
the mail spool file. If I wanted to switch to a GUI client I would be
forced to:
a) use a combo of the GUI AND pine when I am at local vs remote sites
respectively. This leaves various inconsistent mailboxes all over the
place - making me even more sick.

b) Download my mail before reading it. AFAIK, all the standard mail
download protocols (POP, IMAP, etc) are plain text (i.e. insecure). 
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This means I may as well ssh into the mail server and use pine instead.

Unless of course there exists a way of doing secure mail transfer... I
think I found a SecurePOP HOWTO by Yosh (?), but I don't think my mail
servers are running POP in the first place. :P