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Re: POP3 password in plaintext?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: POP3 password in plaintext? |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:25:20 -0400 |
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Modern pop3 servers support STARTTLS, and Emacs will upgrade to a TLS
connection whenever the server supports it. (If you have an Emacs
compiled with gnutls support, but I would guess that almost all Emacs
instances has that.)
That is good.
Would it make sense to warn if a POP server does not support STARTTLS?
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