Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:10:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>, Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@geekpunk.net>, Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>, Evan Dower <evantd@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer) Message-ID: <20020622140116.G2885-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <20020622123644.GA33734@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Sat 2002-06-22 (00:06), Chris Dillon wrote: > > Yes, but this is the case with any IMAP server and doesn't really > > have anything to do with Cyrus in particular. Unlike other IMAP > > servers, however, Cyrus supports SASL which offers plenty of > > non-plain-text authentication options, unfortunately none of which > > work with a local FreeBSD password database that I know of. > > Courier-IMAP supports SASL (PLAIN, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, CRAM-SHA1). I should have said "unlike some other IMAP servers". Thanks to the simple BSD-like license on the Cyrus SASL implementation, it has found its way into a lot of places. > > There is always the option to use SSL, which is my preference, but > > unfortunately neither SSL nor SASL have widespread IMAP client > > support yet. > > Most IMAP clients I know of support SSL. Outlook, Outlook Express, > Eudora, Netscape, Evolution, mutt, pine, ... I know Netscape didn't have that ability for a long time, and neither did Outlook or OE. Mutt and Pine have had it since around 1999, though. > Which IMAP clients don't? If all of the above now support SSL for IMAP connections, then I can't think of any. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon(at)inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectures under development - http://www.freebsd.org No trees were harmed in the composition of this message, although some electrons were mildly inconvenienced. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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