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Secure access for POP3 email

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From: Malcolm S. Muir
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:19
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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

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Malcolm S. Muir                                   D e m o n
Sunderland                                        322 Regents Park Road
England                                           London N3 2QQ


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Subject: Secure access for POP3 email
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