From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: POP3 password in plaintext? Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:31:36 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: References: <878ul1x4kw.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412083941 8232 80.91.229.3 (30 Sep 2014 13:32:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:32:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 30 15:32:14 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XYxXK-0007Gm-6u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:32:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43401 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYxXJ-0004uD-MY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:32:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49310) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYxXB-0004tz-1x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:32:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYxX5-0003Ys-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:32:05 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38098) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYxX4-0003YN-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XYxWy-00076i-Os for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:31:52 +0200 Original-Received: from 198.0.146.153 ([198.0.146.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:31:52 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 198.0.146.153 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:31:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.0.146.153 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YsDuIdV868W8ge+Gap5lZkGfoJs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174838 Archived-At: On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 10:46:55 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" 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