[BBLISA] Re: Questions about your web hosting plans (fwd)

[Dean Anderson]

We (Av8 Internet) do this.  IMAP/SSL, SMTP/SSL, etc. This is an
outsourcing service.  Email me offline and I'll give you prices.

You can use outlook, pine, etc as clients.  No programming is necessary.


		--Dean

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> Revisiting an somewhat recent topic I brought to this group a few months
> back...
> 
> I want to relinquish myself from maintaining a mail server at home, and
> pair.com seems to have great prices and a good reputation, but cannot
> provide me with a secure connection to transfer my local IMAP email to a
> potential account I would create with them.   My goal was to use a local
> email client like Eudora, Netscape Messenger, Outlook Express, etc.
> 
> If pair.com can't do it, what other low-cost, reliable hosting provider
> DOES offer secure IMAP connectivity (SSL or cram-md5 or something) that is
> not strictly web-based?
> 
> Or, is there a tool I can use to perform the transfer in a secure fashion?
> 
> I really don't want to expose my password to the public for any length of
> time, and I am not a programmer, so I do not know how to write any code to
> perform this. :-(
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Scott
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 12:26:24 EST
> From: pair Networks Info <info at pair.com>
> To: Scott Ehrlich <scott at ehrlichtronics.com>
> Subject: Re: [P4Y4R2N] Questions about your web hosting plans
> 
> Hello Scott,
> 
> > Use a non-web IMAP-capable email client (Outlook, Eudora, Netscape
> > Messenger, etc) which can talk securely (SSL, CRAM-MD5, whatever) from me
> > to you to encrypt my password between your server and my home server.
> >
> > I would then also mount my email account from my local server within the
> > same IMAP client.  From that point, I would transfer my Inbox and Sent
> > messages from my local server (unencrypted on my end is fine), to my
> > account on your server (encryption is required).
> >
> > What are my options for security and methods?   I will NOT
> > bounce/redirect
> > my email to my new account when I transfer domains.  It must be straight
> > email push from my end to yours.
> 
> At some point we do plan on offering a secure IMAP and POP access
> solution.  However, at this time we don't have any other options for you
> to use other than Webmail which uses SSL.
> 
> 
> Thank you and have a nice day,
> Sean
> info at pair.com
> pair Networks, Inc.
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