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Article #188Secure access for POP3 email
From: Malcolm S. Muir
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:19
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:19
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- We are pleased to announce the introduction of secure access support to POP3 email for ADSL, Dial Up, PDA, WiFi and mobile access using TLS (Transport Layer Security). This new service is available to all Demon customers who collect email from our mail servers by POP3. Our new service will allow a secure encrypted connection to be made from the customer's system to the POP3 servers, thereby avoiding the need to transmit passwords and email content over the Internet in plain text. This is becoming particularly important with the increasing use of WiFi, PDAs, mobile phones etc. over the public Internet, as opposed to a direct connection to our services. There are two ways of using TLS with POP3. The newer, preferred, method is for the POP3 client to send a STLS command (RFC 2595). The older, deprecated, method is to connect to a different port (pop3s, 995). Our new service supports both methods. If you have the choice, we recommend the STLS command. TLS is directly supported in current versions of Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express as well as a number of other commercial email clients. It is not supported by Turnpike. Customers should be aware that some email clients may wrongly call this option SSL in their configuration. If you use an email client without TLS support, it is still possible to use TLS by using third party software, for example 'stunnel'. Customers should note that the current POP3 service (via port 110) will remain available and there is no requirement for customers to change to TLS. Further details of this new service can be found on our web site at: <http://www.demon.net/helpdesk/faq/tlsfaq/> We hope this new service will be useful to our customers. Malcolm Muir D e m o n - -- Malcolm S. Muir D e m o n Sunderland 322 Regents Park Road England London N3 2QQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 iQCVAwUBQWZbp8UeMni8Zor9AQEbBgQAiI1chJ5SeL6wjkfchkhPgbPj4ssB8V+S cvFT/5l+mdAfDKiWEKZ26XofIchM/zOJRf3s2Cru7AUKh7i01ssqYDeTGPtRSmuR 0YORcBY9BfhjaEnIC/+vMOPnA3fu9rwzPZQqMX8jbXmm3iWxu1c34wKH6/Mrpf/S 8jYOKgpxpE8= =AHjQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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X-Google-Thread: 112c0c,3f7b744cd13f5f9a,start X-Google-Attributes: gid112c0c,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!demon.net!Malcolm From: "Malcolm S. Muir" <Malcolm@demon.net> Newsgroups: demon.announce Subject: Secure access for POP3 email Followup-To: demon.service Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:19:35 +0100 Organization: Demon Internet Ltd. Lines: 61 Approved: malcolm@demon.net Message-ID: <ArajXXAnulZBFwku@demon.net> Reply-To: helpdesk@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Host: muir-et4.staff.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1097227731 24349 194.159.240.5 (8 Oct 2004 09:28:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:28:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U <bS3grvfX$o+p8Jofc680ZqzcmN>