From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 08:32:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB2A16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:32:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (67-51-118-244.dsl1.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [67.51.118.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B5943D1F for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:32:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from mykitchentable.net (unknown [165.107.42.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC073BF500; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:32:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <400EA99B.3080805@mykitchentable.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:32:27 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <20040121021806.GA19342@alzatex.com> <20040121052233.GB33062@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20040121072225.GD18805@alzatex.com> <20040121092617.GC18877@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040121092617.GC18877@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "Loren M. Lang" cc: FreeBSD Mailing list cc: Jonathan Chen Subject: Re: Imap Server and Procmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:32:31 -0000 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