* Daniel Einspanjer [exim-users] <14/06/01 12:04 -0400>:
> POP3 does have an alternative to plaintext passwords, called APOP, that
> does something similar to a hash salted with the date (I could be a
Tunneling over SSL, as you say below.
> The case is similar for SMTP. You can use a couple of different
> encryption methods for the password, but I don't believe that the SMTP
> protocol itself has any methods for encrypting the actual mail to be
> delivered.
That's what PGP / GnuPG etc are for :)
--suresh
