Having an Evolution and Mail notification Problem?

Rick Stevens rstevens at internap.com
Tue May 22 00:47:45 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 05:53 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> > It is useful for things like this (testing POP and IMAP servers and some
> > very rudimentary web server testing).  NEVER, EVER use it for anything
> > important.
> 
> Wait a second.  Now I'm confused.  You said, "NEVER, EVER use it for
> anything important".  But testing things such as POP and IMAP servers *is*
> important.  So, should I or shouldn't I use it?  :-)

Heheheheh!  It's important in that it's testing stuff, but I wouldn't
use it to, say, remotely log into a computer to do things like manage
it.  That's what things like ssh is good at.

telnet is plaintext.  It's not secure.  But then again, neither is
regular POP or IMAP.  Sure, you can use a different authentication
scheme (APOP, CRAMD5) or you can use POP or IMAP over SSL to make it
relatively secure, but I was just using it as an example to check to see
if it was a network or server problem or something at your end.

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