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

[James McDonald]

Bill Campbell wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 08, 2004, James McDonald wrote:
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>>  I have a Courier-IMAP implementation that I am wanting to expose over
>>  the internet using IMAP/SSL.
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>>  Is there any huge security holes that anyone knows of or is it ok to
>>  expose this to the internet.
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>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.
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Thanks Bill I like to hear testimonials before I try something.... I may 
be a bit of a lemming but if everyone has horror stories to tell then 
it's a fair indication of it not being a good idea.