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Re: Mutt Next Generation



On Thursday, 27 January 2005 at 00:08, Paul Walker wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:50:19PM -0600, David Champion wrote:
> 
> > office. I'm not about to put that on my filesystem for any reason, or
> > under any measure of pseudo-protection -- especially not on a public login
> > server.
> 
> And yet you'll happily type it on to a keyboard which might well have a
> sniffer, or (if it's not an encrypted link) where it can sniffed off the
> wire by anyone nearby? :-)

I don't think off the wire is a common problem with SMTP
submission. It's typically over a TLS channel, and SASL (no plaintext)
on top of that.