Looking for a guide to collect all e-mail from the ISP mail server

@lbutlr kremels at kreme.com
Tue Oct 27 16:56:19 EET 2020


On 25 Oct 2020, at 22:47, Sebastian Nielsen <sebastian at sebbe.eu> wrote:
> The second way, is to not have webmail at all, but instead have a authentication gateway in browser, where you must auth with 2FA and captcha. The only purpose of this gateway, is to authenticate users with 2FA before their IP is whitelisted.

I mostly agree with the sentiments in your email, but whitelsiting IP addresses is a HORRIBLE idea and a massive gaping security hole and using a captcha is only slightly less horrible and user-hostile. If you are using 2FA there is absolutely no reason to use a captcha.

A 2FA gateway that reverse proxies the webmail is quite good, but enforcing good passwords and using TLS is good enough for nearly all use cases.

(I recently upped the minimum password length from 12 characters)

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