RE: email question (was The HTML Experiment)

["Shapiro, Mark" <mshapiro@Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU>]

Dick,

	The IMAP daemon on Linux and some other operating systems has
some major security holes.....  I would advise against setting up an
IMAP server unless you are absolutely sure that your operating system
uses a daemon that is secure.

Mark

Dr. Mark H. Shapiro
Physics Department
California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton, CA 92834-6866

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dick Smith [SMTP:rsmith@gulf.net]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 18, 1998 12:06 PM
> To:	phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu
> Subject:	Re: email question (was The HTML Experiment)
>
> Sam Held wrote:
> > Jmaes,
> >         There is a solution to your problem that avoids downloading
> mail
> > onto your current machine. My advisor has implemented it and I am
> soon
> > (later this summer) moving to it.  It involves setting up an IMAP
> server
> > instead if a POP server. 
>
> 				email: rsmith@gulf.net