serving pop3

[Anand Buddhdev]

Mike Kercher wrote:

>>is that a fairly secure program as well?  I will look into 
>>this thanks for the advice
> 
> As secure as pop3 can be.  Of course, passwords are sent in clear text, but
> you will have this regardless of the pop3 daemon you run.

Not quite. Courier-imap (which contains the courier-pop3 package) can do 
POP3S on TCP port 995, and also supports STARTTLS.