Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 12:03:07 +0000 From: dave <dave@asylum.org> To: Mark Hughes <mh_lists@digitalspy.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IMAP server... Is there one? Message-ID: <200111061148.fA6Bm5593285@asylum.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111061056460.10893-100000@www.digitalspy.co .uk> References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0111061044050.17249-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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At 11:11 AM 11/6/01 +0000, you wrote: > >On our test box I've installed IMAP-UW from the ports, and that does do >exactly what we want, it's just that nasty security warning... which I do >take seriously. > >We want it to work with POP, so any implementation must be >cross-compatible with one of the excellent popd implementations in ports >or have it's own popd. Also it would be excellent if whatever system we >came up with would also work with procmail... 'cause I love procmail :+) > >> Line of least resistance for you might well be courier and qmail. > >OK... how easy is that to set up? I think the problem here is mainly that >we're all very inexperienced in setting up mail servers - we literally >don't know where to start, and IMAP-UW for it's faults does just work out >of the box. If it wasn't for the security problems, I wouldn't be here now >:+) If you are that concerned about security then you need to run POP and IMAP using encrypted tunneling (ssh, stunnel, sslwrap) or compile them with SSL support. I just put a network sniffer on my network and realized why everyone kept saying these were very insecure protocols. dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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