Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:58:56 -0600 From: "michael Alexander" <linux@milwaukeevalve.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Imap Server and Procmail Message-ID: <007601c3e069$c50828a0$bd02a8c0@Pmjalex> In-Reply-To: <400EA99B.3080805@mykitchentable.net>
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I believe you have to add it into IE's certificate list, and then outlook will remember it. As for how to do that step with FreeBSD, I'm not sure on that. -Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > Drew Tomlinson > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:32 AM > To: Matthew Seaman > Cc: Loren M. Lang; FreeBSD Mailing list; Jonathan Chen > Subject: Re: Imap Server and Procmail > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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