24 August, 2004

I think I’m glad that I did not delete that mailbox file that I just couldn’t get. However, I think I might have to install my own copy of SquirrelMail here on prime, and for a good reason:
IF I check mail with our install of SquirrelMail, I can no longer retrieve it with a pop3 connection. This is not good. IMAP hates my guts, and I can only BARELY receive IMAP from home - seems the IMAP ports are blocked at the library, but NOT pop3 (and probably not SMTP: I should test this…). So, I’m writing this at home, just for the fact that I can pulse this later on tonight, and stuffing it into MetaPad.

So, here I am, resorting to FTP usage (bleh), when I thought about something:
Doesn’t pop3 handle passwords in the clear? — That is, there is NO encryption done on a password sent to a pop3 server, is there?

And yet, here I am, griping about FTP doing just that, and I’m still doing it with pop3. I need a way to get email without sending a password in the clear. Call me paranoid. o.O;

Now, to contact my host, and ask him a couple of things. Maybe I busted a setting somewhere, which causes that…

I am sure that some of you remember me mentioning Hurricane Charley, and its letdown effects a short while back, and how I was worried about a friend of mine down there. Fortunately, lj:tagrineth: is okay, as we talked last night. Just damage to a tree there, it seems, but nothing out of the ordinary, like a roof being peeled off the building.

So now, I can cease that particular worry, though I feel like I’m forgetting someone else I know that was in that area…