Re: [LI] POP mail security

[Tusar <tusar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tusar>What is the best way to protect my users passwords from being sniffed?
Tusar>Can a user use an encrypted tunnel to send the userid and password to
Tusar>the pop server?
This I use .. but for that u need to have an shell account on the server
and should be running sshd .. 

defaults 
user tusarp is tusar
no rewrite 
poll localhost with protocol pop3 and port 11110: 
preconnect "ssh -C -f tusar@server -L 11110:servername:110 sleep 5"
       password mypassword

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