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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:36:44 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
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:  <20020622123644.GA33734@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020621235955.Y88554-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
References:  <3D13B778.1BB52411@mindspring.com> <20020621235955.Y88554-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>

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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).

> 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, ...

Which IMAP clients don't?

Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org

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