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On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, doug@safeport.com wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Jonathan Chen wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 03:16:26PM -0400, doug@safeport.com wrote:
>>> Has anyone configure imap-uw to accept plaintext passwords? The options listed
>>> in the doumentation do not work. I have tried various combinations of
>>> PASSWDTYPE, SSLTYPE, and WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT with no success.
>>>
>>> Or is there a better imap/pop daemon to use? Thanks for any help.
>>
>> You have to make sure that BOTH mail/imap-uw and mail/cclient have
>> been compiled with "-DWITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT".
>>
>> Cheers.
>> --
>> Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>                          Power corrupts, Absolute Power is pretty neat
>>
> That (eventually) did it - thanks. From reading the UW docs, I had tried:
>
>   make WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT=yes
>
> which looked liked reading the make file do the right thing. What's the
> difference or where can I read about it? I other confusion came from having to
> restart inetd. I would have thought that was not necessary.
>
The answer at least for imap-uw is do not pay too much attention to the makes 
files and docs in the source, rather use /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw/Makefile.