[Dovecot] Sending email using IMAP

Jim Trigg jtrigg at spamcop.net
Fri Nov 3 17:30:11 UTC 2006


On Fri, November 3, 2006 12:09 pm, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Gunter Ohrner wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, 2. November 2006 23:43 schrieb Marc Perkel:
>>
>>> email. And the virus wouldn't have access to the IMAP password so

>> Why not?

> Because the virus wouldn't have the password.

That doesn't answer the question.  Why would the IMAP password be any less
accessible to a virus than the SMTP password?  (For that matter, what you
just used was "proof by assertion" which is meaningless.  "The virus
wouldn't have access to the IMAP password because the virus wouldn't have
the password.")

Jim Trigg



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