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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Alejandro Benitez <benitezalejandrogm@gmail.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Plaintext authentication?
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:32:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86iqvpuz01.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fxqx2vvo.fsf@gmail.com> (Alejandro Benitez's message of "Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:38:03 -0300")

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:38:03 -0300 Alejandro Benitez <benitezalejandrogm@gmail.com> wrote: 

AB> Does the following mean that my password is transmitted plaintext?

AB> Reading active file from gmail via nnimap...
AB> Opening nnimap server on gmail...
AB> imap: Connecting to imap.gmail.com...
AB> imap: Opening SSL connection with `openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect %s:%p'...done
AB> Waiting for response from imap.gmail.com...done
AB> Parsing authinfo file `~/.authinfo'.
AB> imap: Authenticating to `imap.gmail.com' using `login'...
AB> imap: Plaintext authentication...
AB> imap: Authenticating to `imap.gmail.com' using `login'...done
AB> Opening nnimap server on gmail...done
AB> nnimap: Checking mailboxes...done
AB> nnimap: Listing subscribed mailboxes on gmail...done

No, but you can always make sure :)

Use tcpdump/snoop on Unix/Mac OS or Ethereal/Wireshark on Windows.

Ted



      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-28 19:38 Alejandro Benitez
2008-06-29  8:52 ` Nikolaus Rath
2008-07-01 20:32 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]

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