> A friend of mine is asking me about security risks of using IMAP & > POP3 protocols. Why? Because a sales person told my friend that IMAP > protocol is less secure than POP3 protocol. This assumption is not > related to Cyrus IMAP, instead is related only to the protocols. > I'm searching at Google something about POP3 & IMAP security but I'm > not pretty sure about comments I can found in forums or other sites. I'd write this claim off as bogus; use GSSAPI authentication and TLS and either is extremely secure. Your more pressing security vulnerabilities will certainly be elsewhere (the client OS and configuration, most likely). ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
