VanLUG Email Archive
Alan Hodgson (ahodgson@simkin.com)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:19:27 -0800
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:46:28AM -0800, Ian Dobson wrote:
> I'm trying to use Linux as a desktop, but the problem always
> seems to be my mail..
> I need to get at it in both win98 and Linux, so I was thinking
>
> what if I enabled IMAP on my linux server, then used Pegasus mail
> in win98 to access Imap, and used Netscape mail in Linux to
> access Imap?
>
> I think it would work, but what I really want to know is how secure
> is IMAP now, and can it still be hacked?
>
> I'm using the latest version that Redhat had in their 5.2 updates.
The latest version on the updates site has no published vulnerabilities
at this time, AFAIK. There do seem to be new ones found every few
months, though, and as the server runs as root I'd be a little
leary about it.
A better bet might be to get the Cyrus IMAP server and install it -
it runs under it's own user ID with a separate directory structure,
and is quite nice. It also uses it's own mail format so you can't
get at the mail easily with a shell client, which is not so nice, but
for pure IMAP it's quite good.
-- Linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste
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