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Re: [yam] draft-daboo-srv-email: POP3S/IMAPS?

Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> Mon, 18 January 2010 11:22 UTC

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Ned Freed writes:
> The abscence of a technical justification doesn't mean no other sort 
> of justification exists.

I asked three admins about that in 2007, all said "we want all access to 
be encrypted and imaps/pop3s/smtps is the practical way to get that". 
Statistics isn't my field, three identical answers was enough for me, 
and I concluded that SSL wrapping will remain in use until mail servers 
offer configuration settings to allow/prevent plaintext access to mail.

Arnt

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