From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 26 4:17:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from garlic.acadiau.ca (garlic.acadiau.ca [131.162.2.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 754F214D48 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 04:17:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@acadiau.ca) Received: from atelier.acadiau.ca (atelier.acadiau.ca [131.162.138.223]) by garlic.acadiau.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA05342; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 08:16:58 -0400 (AST) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 08:17:22 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Forrest Aldrich Cc: Cyrus Info Mailing List , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who is running Cyrus IMAPd 1.6.x? In-Reply-To: <19991125170048.B5600@drama.navinet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I asked the maintainer... and though I don't recall the > exact response (email him, he'll answer you), I know there > are issues with the changes that Cyrus has implemented, and > how they went about it. SASL, PAM, et al, still has a bit > of work to go through. Frankly, I think it was a mistake > to drop the other, simple and reliable, authentication mechanisms. Personally, I have no problems with them drop'ng the old, just feel that they haven't adequately provided "work arounds"...I'm stubborn...it took me a week of trying to find a work around before I even thought about going with a radiusd solution on the servre to do local auth... > > *shrug* > > But that's the gist of it. > > > _F > > > On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 12:56:53PM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > I'm just curious, but is anyone actually running 1.6.x on a "standalone, > > no external srver for authentication" machine? I just checked the FreeBSD > > ports (/usr/ports/mail/cyrus), and its stuck at 1.5.19...so I'm kinda > > wondering if alot of ppl are avoiding it and sticking with 1.5.x, or if > > the MAINTAINER just hasn't gotten around to upgrading the port... > > > > > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy > > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > > > Marc G. Fournier marc.fournier@acadiau.ca Senior Systems Administrator Acadia University "These are my opinions, which are not necessarily shared by my employer" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message