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

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

Andreas Barth

2004-12-01, 7:50 am

* Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) [041201 12:40]:
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 22:25 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
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> But since the password isn't valid, does it make much difference?
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> For example, my pop3 password isn't the same as my GnuPG passphrase.

Well, but the probability that users who mis-use pop3 instead of
pop3-ssl use their pop3-ssl password for pop3 is quite high.

Cheers,
Andi
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