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Re: [cobalt-users] secure mail for admin
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] secure mail for admin
- From: "Michael Fritsch" <fritschnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Mar 14 04:38:08 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
>
> My problem: How can I recieve mails for admin without sendig plain text
> passwords over the net hundreds of times a day? I know I could do it using
> SSH, but it would be much more comfortable using an ordinary mail client.
> Enabling APOP doesn't seem to help, because I'd have to enable it for the
> user as well, and I can't do that for admin. Perhaps there is a way to
> forward the mails to another user...
You could forward the emails to an unprivileged email account and download
the email
from that account. That way if they get the username and password they can't
do much.
Mike