Re: my vs maildir

[Richard Riley]

Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de> writes:

> On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:10:30 +0100, Richard Riley
> <rileyrg@googlemail.com> said: 
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> RR> other machines can talk to it (if you want) e.g your dev machine on
> RR> the desk could have the router routing imap to it so you can read
> RR> your email from anywhere in the word.
>
> Just another open port, another socket you're blasting your passwords
> through. If you set up dovecot properly to use imaps, I guess you
> should

Its encrypted. Not an issue. And using different ports is nothing more
than a placebo against any serious hacker. You either trust these
services or you dont. I do. Risk v Gain etc.

> be good. But I think the shell method is preferable to plain auth. For
> you LAN: wrap ssh around the dovecot command.
>
> That being said - I also still run dovecot as server: for
> offlineimap. Dno if offlineimap could do without a server, guess I'll
> have to take a look.
>
> Anyone?

I cant think of a single valid reason to not run it as a server tbh.