From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: POP3 password in plaintext?
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:31:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wq8lkzev.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 878ul1x4kw.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 10:46:55 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
SJT> I suppose you could add a "nanny mode" to Emacs POP clients to tell
SJT> the users that they're using an insecure channel if they POP3 to port
SJT> 110 instead of 995 (the latter is the IANA-registered port for POP3
SJT> over TLS).
I can't think of a place to put it (maybe the modeline?), but an
indicator that 4 secure connections and 3 insecure connections are open
would certainly be nice. The user can then judge the situations
themselves and even catch unexpected connections.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-30 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-29 20:49 POP3 password in plaintext? Richard Stallman
2014-09-30 1:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-30 13:31 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2014-09-30 19:23 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-01 4:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-01 5:33 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-01 12:54 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-01 13:15 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-01 17:56 ` David Caldwell
2014-10-01 5:42 ` David Caldwell
2014-10-01 13:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-02 1:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-02 17:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-03 10:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-01 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-01 14:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-01 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-01 23:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-09-30 14:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-09-30 19:25 ` Richard Stallman
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