Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:32:27 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Subject: Re: Imap Server and Procmail Message-ID: <400EA99B.3080805@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <20040121092617.GC18877@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040121021806.GA19342@alzatex.com> <20040121052233.GB33062@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20040121072225.GD18805@alzatex.com> <20040121092617.GC18877@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman told a big fish story including the following on 1/21/2004 1:26 AM: >On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:22:25PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > > >>On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:22:33PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: >> >> >>>On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:18:07PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: >>> >>>[...] >>> >>> >>>>access. I installed uw-imap as it's what I used on linux. It doesn't >>>>have any confg file support and was pretty much plug in way, but on >>>>freebsd it doesn't seem to be working, it gives the error message bad >>>>username or password. What am I missing, there doesn't seem to be >>>>anything to even configure for it to complain about. >>>> >>>> >>>You need to build the mail/imap-uw port and the underlying mail/cclient >>>with -DWITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT. >>> >>> >>Will this require SSL for using plaintext or can I avoid SSL? This is >>for a company migrating from a windoze mail server to a unix-based >>solution and I don't want to have to install a homemade CA cert on all >>the 40+ computers there. >> >> > >No, you misunderstand. mail/cclient defaults to doing SSL-ized stuff, >and this option adds back the ability to work in plaintext. > >Even so, you can run IMAPS (encrypted IMAP, uses port 993) and access >it via MS Outlook quite happily, without having to install >certificates all over the place. > > However, you will have to teach your users to accept the "security certificate cannot be verified" message at the beginning of a mail session. This has proved a difficult concept for a few of my users. It seems there should be some way to teach Outlook to accept it permanently but I have not been able to do so. If you find a solution to this, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Cheers, Drew
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