Collaborate Disseminate
Despite the popularity of social media, for communication that actually matters, e-mail reigns supreme. Crucial to the smooth operation of businesses worldwide, it’s prized for its reliability. Google is one of the world’s largest e-mail providers, both with its consumer-targeted Gmail product as well as G Suite for business customers …read more
Continue reading Google Meddling With URLs In Emails, Causing Security Concerns
I make email client over IMAP protocol. To "remember" user’s connection details (email, password, host, etc.) I need to store password in plain text, because otherwise I won’t be able to open connection again.
Is there is a way t… Continue reading Open IMAP connection using hashed password
Both my iPhone 6 & my Lenovo Yoga 80 with Windows 10 will not send or show new emails. Also Lenovo I cannot delete files, or copy/paste. The Lenovo was the only device taken to repair guy 8/27/2020, but I used my iPhone 6 for its hotsp… Continue reading iPhone 6 “Cannot Get Mail The mail server Imap.gmail.com is not responding. Please make sure you have added the correct account in mail settings” [closed]
Email ist doof? (Naja so’n bisschen)
Email ist toll? (Wir ham ja sonst nichts)
Guck deine Mails nach??? Aber es sind so viele! uwu
Ausserdem muss man da immer Angst haben das der PC krank wird.
Continue reading Asking a specific question for imap [closed]
I’m looking for an IMAP proxy server (more of a reverse proxy, really) which automatically PGP-encrypts all mail. I run a dovecot IMAP server, and I want the IMAP client on my phone to connect to that proxy. I then want my phone to see all… Continue reading Looking for a PGP-encrypting IMAP proxy
Are there any security issues on IMAP or Exchange where you could know whether the server was contacted before or not?
Background: I came across a product that claims that it can identify whether you have contacted a mail server via some e… Continue reading By sending an email to a server, can you identify whether it was contacted before?
logcheck fished out some suspicious log records for me:
May 11 15:50:50 mailserver dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=1.2.3.4, lip=10.0.0.1, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:1408F… Continue reading Do such network events indicate attack attempts? [closed]
Theoretically? (If no, why? And if yes, why hasn’t it been done?)
Continue reading Could IMAP authentication be adapted to support 2FA?
Why Mozilla Thunderbird configured to access Yahoo IMAP server, uses a private IP address, even if there is no other device in the network. Every time, Thunderbird is restarted, it changes remote-host IP address in the range of 10.0.0.0/8…. Continue reading Why Thunderbird has private IP address as remote host?
The idea would be to wrap a server-side IMAP client in a wrapper that transforms IMAP authentication into a web API for authentication (maybe OAuth?). When the back-end application receives credentials, it then passes them onto IMAP withou… Continue reading Anything wrong with using IMAP as authentication for a web app to achieve a kind of easy SSO?