Questions about your web hosting plans (fwd)

[scott at ehrlichtronics.com (Scott Ehrlich)]

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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