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

[alex@basespace]

Brief plug: we offer secure IMAP at BaseSpace.net also. Unfortunately, since
hosting isn't our primary business, we don't have the volume to keep the
costs down, so a basic web hosting account starts at $20/month. But with
that you get shell access and a bit more freedom to do stuff than you might
on your usual shared hosting system.

 - Alex Aminoff
   BaseSpace.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Ehrlich" <scott at ehrlichtronics.com>
To: <bblisa at bblisa.org>; <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 12:56 PM
Subject: [BBLISA] Re: Questions about your web hosting plans (fwd)


> 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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