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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Cuteness can be overcome through sufficient bastardry - - --Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
