Debian Developers - Re: Bug#283751: ITP: fakepop -- fake pop3 server to warn users that only pop3-ssl is

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Re: Bug#283751: ITP: fakepop -- fake pop3 server to warn users that only pop3-ssl is

Ron Johnson

2004-12-01, 4:28 am

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 11:04 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> pzn writes:
>
> So, let me get this straight - fakepop will allow people to log in
> (using their username and password) in the clear and THEN tell them
> that they should have used POP over SSL instead. Quite how is this
> better than "connection refused"?

Read the description:
"You can customize messages in /etc/fakepop/ directory to teach
your users how they should configure their mail clients to use
pop3-ssl instead of pop3"

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