SSL/IMAP Is it safe enough to run exposed to the internet

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004, James McDonald wrote:
>
>   I have a Courier-IMAP implementation that I am wanting to expose over
>   the internet using IMAP/SSL.
>
>   Is there any huge security holes that anyone knows of or is it ok to
>   expose this to the internet.

I haven't heard of any security holes in courier-imap, and we have it
running at several fairly regionals ISPs on SuSE 8.2 and SuSE 9.0 systems
with no problems.

Bill
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