Is UAL secure?

[OliE]

Hi,

I have two small questions:

1) Is the UAL(port 5729) connection secure over the internet? Transfer the data encrypted?
2) It not really necessary but can I run a command on the server when I press NewPost in webmail or in Outlook? (The background is that I will execute the fetchmail command, so I don't need to fetch mails every 5 minutes in domain mode and when you receive an important mail you need to wait in a worst case scenario 5 minutes)

Best Regards,
Oliver

[ScalixSupport]

Hello,

The UAL connection is not secure (there is no data encryption) over the internet. We recommend setting up and using a VPN in situations like this.

As for your second question, this is not possible on the Server...

Regards,

Matthew
Support

[kali]

But the user authentication portion of the connection is secure right?

[ScalixSupport]

Yes... The password is indeed encrypted. But, everything else is sent over the wire in plain text.

Matthew
Support

[jch]

You can also use Kerberos for signing on with Outlook (aka SSO); that has some security advantages. With Kerberos the password isn't sent across the net in any form, encrypted or otherwise.

But Matthew is right -- for remote UAL (aka MAPI) access, use a VPN.

ch