ipop3d and APOP

[Craig White]

www.dictionary.com does not have a definition for convestation (or convest).
Was this a typo for conversation or can you tell me the definition of the
word...I like its sound.

Craig

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of
> sinck@corp.quepasa.com
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 10:12 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: ipop3d and APOP
>
>
>
>
> \_ >From what I understand, APOP uses encryption to authenticate
> \_ pop users, yet I can not find any documentation on how to
> \_ implement it. I am running ipop3d as the deamon, and all it says
> \_ is that APOP support is already compiled into it.
> \_
> \_ Anybody care to give me a hand.
>
> On a WAG, you just have to check the 'use encrypted authentication' on
> the client.
>
> Basically, IIRC, the pop convestation runs along these lines:
>
> telnet popserver 110
> c: user sinck
> s: ok [or something equivalent]
> c: pass my_pop_pass_here
> s: ok 24000 messages
> c: retr 1
> s:
> message
> one
> here
>  .
> c: quit
>
>
> For authenticated pop, instead of issuing the 'pass' command,
> there would be some sort of encryption of the password and have it
> sent with the 'auth' command.
>
> David
>
>
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